[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
- Country houses
  - Audley End, Saffron Walden, Essex: designs for the house and park for Sir John Griffin Griffin Bt (later 4th Lord Howard de Walden), 1763-85 (18)
    - House: designs for the library, little drawing room, great parlour, great drawing room, and a dressing room
      - Record drawings for friezes for the great parlour, the drawing room screen, and the drawing room (1)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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