[18] Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)
    - Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/29 (part)

Purpose

[18] Record drawing for friezes, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the hall, the great room, the lady's room, and the salon. The hall frieze is composed of rosettes, enclosed within a fan of waterleaf, and a circular frame, alternating with an urn, supported by calyx and arabesques. The great room frieze is composed of alternating urns and vines, divided by double calyx, and enclosed by arabesques of ribbon. The lady's room frieze is composed of anthemia alternating with naturalistic anthemia, connected by calyx and arabesques of ribbon. The salon frieze is composed of a mask, enclosed within a fan, flanked by festoons, connecting to urns supported by calyx

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Earl of Bective / Hall / Great Room / Lady's room (all underwritten in pencil) / Salon / Earl of Bective (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (293 x 469)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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