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  • image SM Adam volume 49/61

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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