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  • image SM Adam volume 5/13

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/13

Purpose

[68] Preliminary design for a panel for a window shutter, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an ornamental window shutter with a central mask set within an octagonal compartment. This is surmounted by a pedestal bearing an urn and flanked by putti, and there is an apron of beading, arabesques, an anthemion and a pendent urn

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

upper pannel in window shutter

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (250 x 431)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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