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  • image SM Adam volume 52/21 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/21 verso

Purpose

[6] Record drawing showing the entablature for the back drawing room, 1765, thought to be as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a detail of an entablature, with an astragal ornamented with connected enclosed rosettes, a frieze ornamented with urns supported by acanthus leaves and anthemia, connected by foliage to naturalistic anthemia supported by acanthus leaves and rosettes, and with a cornice ornamented with egg and dart, dentils, acanthus leaves and stiff leaf, tubular flowers, and waterleaf

Scale

half size

Inscribed

Cornice, Frize & Astragal / for the Room next the Garden / for the House in Mary Street / Dublin

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    datable to 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (374 x 304)

Hand

Adam office hand

Watermark

GR within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 10
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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