[17] Record drawing for the drawing room, dressing room, and little dressing room, ND, as executed

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  - 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 53/51 (part)

Purpose

[17] Record drawing for the drawing room, dressing room, and little dressing room, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the drawing room, dressing room, and little dressing room. The drawing room frieze is composed of an enclosed urn on a pedestal, flanked by enclosed semicircular compartments containing an urn filled with foliage, flanked by winged sphinxes. The dressing room frieze is composed of urns, supported by double calyx, and scrolls of ribbon, connected by calyx, tubular flowers, and with anthemia between each urn, which support arches of beading. The bedroom frieze is composed of urns filled with poppies. The little dressing room frieze is composed of tubular flowers, supported by anthemia and calyx, and connected by festoons

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room / Dressing room / Bed Chamber / Little Dressing room (all underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (293 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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