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[34] Finished drawing for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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.
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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