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[6] Design for one wall for the second scheme for the eating parlour (later the ball room), 1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 50/57
Purpose
[6] Design for one wall for the second scheme for the eating parlour (later the ball room), 1775, as executed
Aspect
Section through a rectangular room, showing a chimney wall elevation, with a coved ceiling, ornamented with urns on turned pedestals, connected by festoons, and by enclosed rosettes within figures-of-eight enclosing rosettes, and there are two chimneypieces, with fluted stiles, and tablets containing birds, surmounted by circular overmantel pictures, within Corinthian frames, with friezes of festoons, and surmounted by further rectangular pictures, and the two chimneypieces flank a large rectangular ruinscape, with a fluted frame, with an apron of rosettes within fans, and festoons, and surmounted by an urn and festoons, and to either side of the chimneypieces are rectangular grisaille panels, and doors, with console architraves, surmounted by rectangular overdoor ruinscapes, and the room has a frieze ornamented with urns enclosed within connected double calyx and scrolls
Scale
bar scale of 4 inches to 10 feet
Inscribed
Design for finishing the Chimney side of the Eating Parlor, for The Right Honble. The Earl of Bective / dark green / Light green / Ruin / Picture / Picture / Ruin
Signed and dated
- 02/12/1775
Adelphi Decr. 2d 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (599 x 493)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
PVL
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
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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