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[61] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 5/19
Purpose
[61] Preliminary design for an ornamental panel, c1775, possibly executed
Aspect
Elevation of an ornamental panel with a central support with ball feet, flanked by half-putti and arabesques and surmounted by an urn bearing swans. Above this there is a figurative medallion surmounted by a tubular flower bearing an urn ornamented with an anthemion and ram masks. This is flanked by a ribbon which suspends beading, lozenges enclosing rosettes, an urn, calyx, arabesques and tubular flowers
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Upper middle pannel (pencil) / ornament yellow upon light Green Ground (ink)
Signed and dated
- c1775
c1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (322 x 545)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
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.
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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