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[42] Design for a door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/110
Purpose
[42] Design for a door panels for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, executed with alterations
Aspect
Elevation of three door panels, the top panel is square, and contains a medallion, enclosed within a wreath, the central panel is rectangular, and contains an oval medallion, enclosed within a wreath, surmounted by an urn containing flowers, and with drops of calyx and tubular flowers hung from the handles, and supported by arabesques, festoons, and a tablet containing a half-figure and arabesques, and ornamented with ram amsks, and urns containing anthemia, and the bottom panel is rectangular, also with a central oval medallion enclosed within a wreath, surmounted by a wreath tubular flower and urn, containing an anthemion, and with drops of calyx and tubular flowers hung from the handles, and supported by an eagle enclosed within a wreath, winged half-horses, and a tablet containing a roundel flanked by swags
Scale
bar scale of 2 3/5 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Lord Stanleys Pannels
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (151 x 136)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
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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