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Variant preliminary design and design for a chimney board for the Etruscan room, 1777 (2)

The Etruscan dressing room chimney board was executed in accordance with Adam volume 17/137, but without figures on the large central urn, and it survives in situ.

Edward Croft Murray has suggested that the painter of the ceiling, walls and chimney board in the Etruscan dressing room was Pietro Maria Borgnis (1743-1810). This is based on a travel account written by Mrs Lybee-Powys, who recounts that the housekeeper at Osterley had said that the walls were painted by 'Berners'. The decoration was painted on to sheets of paper which were pasted on to canvas and affixed to wooden board, with a brass handle at the top.
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