[5] Design for a curtain cornice for the ante room, 1774; 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)
      - Design for the ante room curtain cornice, September 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/108

Purpose

[5] Design for a curtain cornice for the ante room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Full sized elevation of a detail of a curtain cornice, ornamented with stiff leaf, with an apron of crockets composed of anthemia and calyx enclosed within scrolled hearts, and surmounted by anthemia

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the Anti Room at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square (Curtain Cornice for the Anti Room underwritten in pencil) (at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square in the hand of William Adam) / [cropped _ _ _ ] above the window for this Cornice wihout [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] (in pencil)

Signed and dated

13/09/1774
Adelphi / Sepr. 13t. 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and terre verte wash on laid paper (302 x 254)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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