[87] Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/107

Purpose

[87] Working drawing for a curtain cornice for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Part elevation with a central serpentine band, and an apron containing anthemia, fans, acanthus leaves, arabesques, rosettes, calyx, and tubular flowers, and surmounted by an anthemion and paterae

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the Dressing Room at Osterly / (and in pencil) These ornaments are repeted (sic) 14 times in each / Cornice

Signed and dated

October 1776
Adelphi / October 18t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including black and sepia on laid paper (407 x 329)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Notes

The curtain cornice in the Etruscan dressing room was executed in accordance with Adam's design and survives in situ.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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