[41] Design for a girandole for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Designs for a pier glass frame and girandole for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/179

Purpose

[41] Design for a girandole for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole composed of a central figurative tablet, of tabula ansata form, flanked by candle branches and with an apron of an ox skull, festoons, peltoid shields, drop calyx, rosettes, and a central medallion enclosed within a wreath. The tablet is surmounted by a pair of reclining heraldic stags, calyx, arabesques and anthemion, and this is surmounted by a further medallion enclosed within a wreath. Above this there is a further tablet ornamented with a rosette and swags, with an apron of festoons, calyx and an anthemion, and all this is surmounted by an urn

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandol for Lady Bathurst’s Dressing room

Signed and dated

January 1778
Adelphi / 31st Janry 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (242 x 431)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 88
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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