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[30] Design for a curtain cornice for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/111
Purpose
[30] Design for a curtain cornice for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Full sized elevation of a curtain cornice, ornamented with stiff leaf, and a band of urns supported by arabesques of acanthus, supporting anthemia, and enclosed within arches supported by tubular flowers, and with fans between each arch, and with an apron of crockets of calyx, and surmounted by an anthemion acroterion, and a seated putto beside a flaming urn
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Curtain Cornice for the Great Drawing Room at Lord Stanley's in Grosvr. Square (at Lord Stanley's in Grosvr. Square in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 13/09/1774
Adelphi September 13th: 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, and pink on laid paper (448 x 459)
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
Stillman, 1966, p. 110
Harris, 2001, pp. 289, 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
Stillman, 1966, p. 110
Harris, 2001, pp. 289, 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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