[6] Design for one wall for the second scheme for the eating parlour (later the ball room), 1775, as executed

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  - Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)
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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.

Level

Drawing

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