[5] Record drawing for a frieze for the back drawing room, ND, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Aldersgate Street, number 152, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for the Hon. Thomas Harley, 1771 (5)
      - Record drawing for a frieze for the back drawing room, ND, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/27 (part)

Purpose

[5] Record drawing for a frieze for the back drawing room, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the back drawing room, composed of drops of calyx, alternating with anthemia, supported and connected by strigil-shaped arabesques of ribbon

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Honble Thomas Harley (underwritten in pencil) / Back 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. 34
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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