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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/216

Purpose

[3] Alternative preliminary design and unfinished working drawing for a tripod fire screen pole, c1778, executed status unknown

Aspect

Rough elevation of a tripod base, with paw(?) feet, surmounted by a band of fluting and ram masks, with an apron of festoons, and surmounted by a turned shaft, and a full sized elevation of a tripod base with paw feet, and volute legs ornamented with acanthus leaves and rosettes, supporting a turned shaft, with an acorn apron, and ornamented with gadrooning, acanthus leaves, and bands of spiral fluting

Scale

not to scale, and full size

Inscribed

Lady Mills fire screen and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    datable to 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (490 x 556)

Hand

Robert Adam and an Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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