[14] Design for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Syon House, Brentford, Greater London: designs for the interior and the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1761-69 (69)
    - Variant design and finished drawing for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, Adam volume 18/60 as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/54

Purpose

[14] Design for the scagliola floor in the ante room, c1761-62, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular compartmental floor divided by bands of guilloche, and with a colonnade of square columns around the edge, and with a central octagonal compartment containing a central rosette encircled by irregular octagons enclosing rosettes, and a circular band of scrolled hearts, and with outer hexagonal compartments containing paterae enclosed by an oval of Vitruvian scroll, and rectangular compartments containing patterns of squares enclosing rosettes in half of the floor, and overlapping circles enclosing rosettes in the other half

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Carpet (incorrect and in the hand of William Adam) / Sion House Scagliola Floor in Ante Room (in pencil the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

1761-62
datable to c1761-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including olive green and Indian red on laid paper (593 x 479)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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