[44] Designs for curtain cornices for the Etruscan dressing room and the bedchamber, 1774, as 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)
      - Design for the Etruscan dressing room and bedchamber curtain cornices, September 1774, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/112

Purpose

[44] Designs for curtain cornices for the Etruscan dressing room and the bedchamber, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Full sized elevations of details of curtain cornices. The cornice for the Etruscan dressing room is ornamented with stiff leaf, with an apron of enclosed rosettes, flanked by drops of calyx, and connected by festoons of beading, and surmounted by crockets composed of fluted cups containing pinecones. The bedchamber cornice is ornamented with fluting, with an apron of lambrequins containing poppies, and with calyx in between, and surmounted by foliate crockets, and an acroterion of acanthus leaves

Scale

full sized

Inscribed

Curtain Cornice for the Bow Dressing Room at Lord Stanley's / in Grosvenor Square (at Lord Stanley's / in Grosvenor Square in the hand of William Adam) / Curtain Cornice for the Bed Chamber / Bed Chamber (in pencil) / Black (in pencil) / Blue (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

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

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (292 x 502)

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
Harris, 2001, pp. 294, 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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