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  • image SM Adam volume 5/19

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

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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