[85] Record drawings for friezes for the eating parlour, great dining room, library, Lord Stanley's dressing room, and Lord Stanley's closet, ND; it is not known if these designs were executed

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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)
      - Record drawings for friezes for various rooms, ND (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/5

Purpose

[85] Record drawings for friezes for the eating parlour, great dining room, library, Lord Stanley's dressing room, and Lord Stanley's closet, ND; it is not known if these designs were executed

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the eating parlour, the great dining room, the library, Lord Stanley's dressing room, and an unexecuted design for Lord Stanley's octagonal closet. The eating parlour frieze is composed of putti riding rams, alternating with paired putti, divided by tazze, from which spring wheat sheaves and festoons of vines. The great dining room frieze is composed of a jug and an urn flanking a mask with a vine for hair, enclosed within a wreath, and accompanied by crossed thyrsi. Lord Stanley's dressing room frieze is composed of urns, alternately supported by acanthus leaves and pedestals, connected by festoons of bell flowers, and alternating with enclosed rosettes. The unexecuted octagonal closet frieze is composed of putti, supported by tubular flowers and arabesques, alternating with double calyx, and connected by swags

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Eating room / Great Dining room / Library / Occasional Bed Chamber / Done for Octagon Dressg room but not executed

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (291 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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