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[14] Record drawings for friezes for the hall, ante room, and dining room N.D.
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 53/52 (part)
Purpose
[14] Record drawings for friezes for the hall, ante room, and dining room N.D.
Aspect
Elevation of friezes for the hall, ante room, and dining room. The frieze for the hall is composed of a band of ox skulls connected by festoons of beading, a band of laurel leaf tips, and a band of roundels enclosing trophies, altars, and urns. The frieze for the ante room is composed of naturalistic palmettes, alternating with rectangular compartments enclosing ox skulls and swags, and connected by scrolls. The frieze for the dining room is composed of bacchic masks, with vine and wheat headdresses, enclosed within a figure-of-eight of a vine in one strand, and wheat sheaves in the other
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Anthony Chamier Esqr (in pen) / Hall at Mr Chamiers (in pencil) / Hall (in pen) / (and in pen and underwritten in pencil) Anti room / Dining room / Anthony Chamier (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
VDL V and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
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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