[11] Preliminary designs for ironwork railings, c1776

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  - Mistley Church, Essex, for the Rt. Hon. Richard Rigby, c1776, as executed (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/157

Purpose

[11] Preliminary designs for ironwork railings, c1776

Aspect

Above- Elevations of ironwork railings ornamented with scrolled hearts and calyx, and railings ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll Centre- Elevations of ironwork railings ornamented with scrolled hearts, anthemia and rosettes, and railings ornamented with calyx, enclosed within semi-circular bands Below- Elevation of iron railings, with overlapping ovoids ornamented with rosettes and anthemia, and railings ornamented with anthemia enclosed within semi-circular bands, and within lozenges surrounded by rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

(in pencil) Church Yard Raile / From Raile leaving(?) the Altar in Mistley Church- and some dimensions and figures given

Signed and dated

c1776
c1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (300 x 379)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

PROPATRIA - Maid of Dort

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 23

Level

Drawing

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