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[6] Record drawing showing the entablature for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/21 verso
Purpose
[6] Record drawing showing the entablature for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a detail of an entablature, with an astragal ornamented with connected enclosed rosettes, a frieze ornamented with urns supported by acanthus leaves and anthemia, connected by foliage to naturalistic anthemia supported by acanthus leaves and rosettes, and with a cornice ornamented with egg and dart, dentils, acanthus leaves and stiff leaf, tubular flowers, and waterleaf
Scale
half size
Inscribed
Cornice, Frize & Astragal / for the Room next the Garden / for the House in Mary Street / Dublin
Signed and dated
- 1765
datable to 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (374 x 304)
Hand
Adam office hand
Watermark
GR within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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