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Finished drawing for the great drawing room, 1779, unexecuted (1)
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Finished drawing for the great drawing room, 1779, unexecuted (1)
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It is possible to see the footprint of this room in the unexecuted plan for the principal storey of the three-block design (Adam volume 34/20).
Although King mistakenly assumed that this interior was designed for Nutmeg Hall, prior to the fire of 1779, he does note that the coffered apses are comparable to the trompe l'oeil examples in the drawing room at Syon. Moreover, it is worthy of note that the inclusion of figurative and grotesque panels on the walls would have been more usual in a hall or dining room, as drawing rooms were more typically hung with silk.
Although King mistakenly assumed that this interior was designed for Nutmeg Hall, prior to the fire of 1779, he does note that the coffered apses are comparable to the trompe l'oeil examples in the drawing room at Syon. Moreover, it is worthy of note that the inclusion of figurative and grotesque panels on the walls would have been more usual in a hall or dining room, as drawing rooms were more typically hung with silk.
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