[11] Record drawing for friezes, ND

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hertford Street, number 10 (now Sheridan House), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne, 1769-71 (15)
      - Record drawing for friezes, ND (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/15

Purpose

[11] Record drawing for friezes, ND

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the front and back parlours, the ante room, and the front and back drawing rooms. The front parlour frieze is composed of turned shafts, supported by pedestals, alternating with anthemia flanked by rinceaux. The back parlour frieze is composed of lozenges, with double anthemia in between, and alternately containing enclosed rosettes, and enclosed masks. The ante room frieze is composed of alternating jugs and masks enclosed within fans. The front drawing room frieze is composed of tubular flowers, supported by calyx, and ornamented with ram masks, alternating with double calyx, and connected by festoons, and arabesques of ribbon. The back drawing room frieze is composed of drops of calyx, flanked by arabesques of acanthus leaves and calyx, alternating with scrolled hearts, enclosing anthemia and rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

General Burgoyne / Front Parlor / Back Parlor / Anti room one pair / First Drawing room / Second Drawing room / General Burgoyne (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (290 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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