[47] Preliminary design for a screen for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774-75; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Preliminary design for the Etruscan dressing room screen, 1774-75; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/73

Purpose

[47] Preliminary design for a screen for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774-75; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of a rectangular screen, ornamented with a tree (?), within a plain frame, with the base rail surmounted by an anthemion, and the top rail surmounted by an oval medallion and coronet, flanked by half-putti, and the frame is supported by V-shaped legs, with fans between the legs

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Fine Screen for Lady Eliz Stanley and some measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

1774-75
datable to 1774-75

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (163 x 214)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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