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  • image SM Adam volume 5/17

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/17

Purpose

[40] Preliminary design for a door panel for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular door panel, ornamented with winged horses, supporting an urn, surmounted by a tablet containing a chariot pulled by winged horses, surmounted by a medallion enclosed within a vine, supporting calyx and a tablet containing a mask flanked by festoons, surmounted by an urn containing poppies(?), with an apron of festoons supporting drops of rosettes, bows, calyx, tubular flowers, and lanterns

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Lower doorcase Pannell / (and in pen) Green ornament upon light / yellow Ground

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (310 x 562)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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