[12] Preliminary designs for a girandole and tripod, c1781

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Great George Street, number 10, London and an unknown site for Henry Drummond, 1765-1781 (13)
      - Preliminary designs for a girandole and tripod and design for a girandole c1781 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/39

Purpose

[12] Preliminary designs for a girandole and tripod, c1781

Aspect

Left – Elevation of a girandole ornamented with a central figurative roundel, flanked by draped figures supporting candle branches. Below this there is a mirror in the form of a shield, ornamented with ram masks, and web-like fluting, all with an apron of festoons of calyx, and drop calyx enclosed within a wreath. Above the central roundel there is beading enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, and a rosette surmounted by an anthemion and flanked by swags Right – Elevation of a tripod with paw feet and sabre legs ornamented with ram masks, and this supports a vessel ornamented with gadrooning

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Henry Mr Drummond to be drawn at full size- / Same Terms as Sir A. Humes or with little variation-

Signed and dated

c1781
c1781

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (192 x 286)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

PRO PATRIA – Britannia

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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