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[35] Design for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/264
Purpose
[35] Design for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular door panel, ornamented with an oval medallion, within a frame of acanthus leaves, and supported by a tubular flower ornamented with sphinxes, and by rinceaux, which also supports two urns, and two festoons, which are connected to tablets of guilloche to either side of the medallion, surmounted by winged griffons, surmounted by tubular flowers, and anthemia enclosed within laurel wreaths, supporting festoons connected to an urn which surmounted the central medallion, and supports a portion of rinceaux and a large anthemion
Scale
to a scale, possibly full size
Inscribed
Bottom Pannell for Doors at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square
Signed and dated
- 19/08/1774
Adelphi August 19t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, pink, and terre verte on laid paper (289 x 520)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Stillman, 1966, p. 85
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 85
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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