[15] Record drawing for a frieze for the hall, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Mellerstain, Earlston, Scottish Borders: designs for the house, interiors, and an unexecuted memorial tower for the Hon. George Baillie, c1768-78 (19)
    - Record drawings for friezes for the hall, galley, staircase, library, library doors, dining room, drawing room, lady’s dressing room, and little dressing room, ND, all but that for the staircase as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/49 (part)

Purpose

[15] Record drawing for a frieze for the hall, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for the hall, composed of fluting, alternating with either an enclosed rosette accompanied by a crossed quiver of arrows, or a peltoid shield ornamented with a mask, and accompanied by crossed swords

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Honble. George Baillie (underwritten in pencil) / Hall / Beauclerk Bull Baillie (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (292 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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