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