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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Preliminary designs and design for the Etruscan dressing room door panels, 1774, executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/38

Purpose

[41] 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 half-horses, supporting a tablet containing an enclosed rosette flanked by festoons, surmounted by a bird (eagle?), a female figure, and a flower(?), all enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, surmounted by an urn containing wheat sheaves(?), and flanked by festoons, supporting drops of rosettes, bows, tubular flowers, calyx, cameos, and lozenges

Scale

to a rough scale

Inscribed

Bottom panel of Door in Etruscan R [cropped]

Signed and dated

1774
datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (312 x 540)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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