[12] Alternative designs for the border of a slab for the first drawing room, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - 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)
      - Alternative preliminary designs and designs for the first and second drawing room table slabs, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/26

Purpose

[12] Alternative designs for the border of a slab for the first drawing room, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed

Aspect

Alternative elevations of details of a border for a segmental slab. The first (upper) border is ornamented with naturalistic anthemia supported by calyx, alternating with anthemia enclosed within arches and scrolls of ribbon, connected by festoons, and with borders of enclosed connected rosettes. The second (lower) border is ornamented with anthemia, arabesques, calyx and rosettes, set between a shaped frame, and with borders of beading and Vitruvian scroll

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Slab for the 1st. Drawing Room at Lord Stanley[cropped] / in Grosvenor Square / Slab for the First Drawing Room at [cropped] (in pencil) / Stanleys (in pencil) / Slab for the second Drawing Room at Lord Stanley[cropped] (in pencil) / Slab for the 2d. Drawing Room at Lord Stanley's and some measurements given

Signed and dated

27/08/1774
Adelphi / August 27t 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes incuding Indian yellow, terre verte and pink on laid paper (237 x 359)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
Harris, 2001, p. 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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