[47] Preliminary design for a girandole, c1772, possibly executed

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/29

Purpose

[47] Preliminary design for a girandole, c1772, possibly executed

Aspect

Centre- Elevation of a girandole with a central urn ornamented by ram masks and forming a double branch candelabrum. The urn has an apron of festoons of husks, with a figurative cameo and a tablet with an apron of a mask, a swag and calyx. All this is surmounted by a tripod, with legs surmounted by terms, which supports an urn ornamented with gadrooning Left- Elevation of a girandole as above, but with the candle branches omitted, an alternative figurative cameo, and with winged griffin forming the feet of the tripod

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lady Bute.

Signed and dated

c1772
c1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (200 x 191)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

C TAYLOR

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 69; Volume II, Index, p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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