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[15] Record drawings for friezes for the great parlour, the drawing room screen, and the drawing room
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 53/39 (part)
Purpose
[15] Record drawings for friezes for the great parlour, the drawing room screen, and the drawing room
Aspect
Elevation of friezes. The frieze for the great parlour is composed of peltoid shields and festoons hung from bows. The frieze for the drawing room screen is composed of a rosette enclosed within a fan, and flanked by drops of calyx within a serpentine ribbon. The frieze for the drawing room is composed of a patera and rosettes formed of anthemia, calyx and scrolls, alternating, and enclosed within connected circles of acanthus leaves, with calyx between the circles
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Sir John Griffin / Audley End / Great Parlor / Drawing room Screen / Drawing room (all in pen and underwritten in pencil) / ie architecture to columned recess (beside Drawing room Screen in pencil in a modern curatorial hand) / Sir John Griffin (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)
Signed and dated
- N.D.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper of folio page (291 x 471)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly James Adam
Watermark
LVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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