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[31] 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 49/61
Purpose
[31] Design for a door panel for the great drawing room, 1774, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a square door panel, containing a circular medallion, hung from a mask, flanked by festoons which support musical trophies, and the medallion is supported by arabesques enclosing rosettes
Scale
to a scale, possibly full size
Inscribed
Top pannell for Doors at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / a fair Copy of this sent to Mr. Clay / at Birmingham / A green ground / figure colour / 10/4 square (in pencil) and some rough calculations in pencil on the right-hand side
Signed and dated
- 10/05/1774
Adelphi May 10t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (379 x 391)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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