[84] Finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, executed with minor alterations

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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
      - Variant unfinished design and finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, drawing 84 executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/44

Purpose

[84] Finished drawing for a pier glass frame for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular pier glass frame as Adam volume 20/45, but with the rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight beading, a blank medallion with a frame of enclosed rosettes, and without any military trophies

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Dressing Room at Osterley (in pencil) / Glass frame for the Etruscan Dressing room at Osterley

Signed and dated

1775
1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow, black and cerulean blue within a double ruled border on laid paper (379 x 542)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IV and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 83
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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