[3] Finished drawing for the walls for the drawing room, 1771, executed with alterations

Explore Collections

You are here: CollectionsOnline / [3] Finished drawing for the walls for the drawing room, 1771, executed with alterations

Browse

Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the drawing room, 1771, executed with minor alterations (2)

Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image

Print this image in A4 view

Reference number

SM Adam volume 50/73

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for the walls for the drawing room, 1771, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations of a rectangular room, with an apsidal end, and a segmental barrel vaulted ceiling, as Adam volume 12/91, and the room has a three-bay window wall, with curtain cornices, and two pier glasses, and there is a door in the wall opposite with a console architrave, and a chimneypiece in the end wall, surmounted by an overmantel mirror frame, and the alcove contains three urn-filled niches, articulated by paired fluted engaged columns, and surmounted by a semi-dome ornamented as in Adam volume 12/91, and the whole room has a frieze of anthemia enclosed within wreaths alternating with calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3 3/5 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Section of a Room for ___ Thynne Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) and some measurements given (verso) 1 / Mr Thynne / Mr Thynne (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1771
datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper ()

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).