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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/38

Purpose

[66] Preliminary design for a girandole for Lady Wynn’s dressing room, c1775

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole with a fluted base in the form of a tubular flower, and this has an apron consisting of a mask and a festoon suspending a rosette. The base is ornamented with a band of beading and drop calyx, and supports an urn ornamented with gadrooning, a cameo, and ram masks. The urn supports a pair of candle branches, from which festoons of calyx are suspended

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Pilastory (underwritten in pencil) / Lady Williams Wynn’s Dressing room / NB. The Branches & festoons over M[_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] / should be made to take off. & only to be [_ _ _ _ _ _] / when the Room is to be lighted up- (all underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (195 x 261)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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