[2] Record drawing for a frieze for the drawing room, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Charlotte Street, number 8 (now 10 Bloomsbury Street), London: executed designs for a ceiling and frieze for Mr Lyte, 1773 (2)
      - Record drawing for a frieze for the drawing room, ND, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/27 (part)

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for a frieze for the drawing room, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the drawing room, composed of a peltoid-shield-shaped fan, alternating with urns enclosed within wreaths, between which are double calyx, supporting anthemia, calyx, arabesques of ribbons, and festoons of beading

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mr Lyte (underwritten in pencil) / Drawing room

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (291 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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