[32] Alternative finished drawings for an organ case, 1775, possibly executed

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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/15

Purpose

[32] Alternative finished drawings for an organ case, 1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan, elevation and profile of an organ case. The plan shows the footprint of the case. The elevation shows two alternative designs. On the left-hand-side the organ is smaller in design. The base is ornamented with flora, with bands of rosettes and festoons, and urns, arabesques and drop calyx above. The pilaster stile is ornamented with urns, musical instruments and wreaths. The central panel is ornamented with arabesque and there is a frieze of arabesques and enclosed anthemia. On the right-hand-side the case is to a larger design. The base is ornamented with strigilation surmounted by bands of festoons and rosettes, urns, arabesques and drop calyx. The stile is tripartite in form, with additional pipes flanked by paired pilasters ornamented as to the left. The stile is supported by a pedestal base ornamented with an oval depicting musical instruments, ram masks and festoons, mask and lozenges, The organ pipes are covered with swags and the case is surmounted by a lyre, draped figure bearing a trumpet and urns

Scale

bar scale of 3 1/2 inches to 5 feet

Inscribed

Organ Case for Lady Home/ Plan of the Organ / faint pencil inscription centre left

Signed and dated

June 1775
Adelphi June 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including sepia, cerulean blue, verdigris, terre verte, violet and Venetian red washes on laid paper (496 x 419)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
Harris, 1963, p. 57
Whinney, 1969, pp. 44, 63
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 290
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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