[34] Finished drawing for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, unexecuted

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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)
      - Designs and finished drawings for the great drawing room door panels, August 1774, Adam volumes 46/61, 24/261, 24/262, 24/264 executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/263

Purpose

[34] Finished drawing for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Full size elevation of a door panel, ornamented with rinceaux, rosettes, calyx, tubular flowers, anthemia, urns, and peltoid shields, all around an oval frame ornamented with acanthus leaves, and containing a pencil-drawn figure

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Earl of Derby

Signed and dated

1774
datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink, terre verte and Indian yellow on laid paper (291 x 526)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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