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[11] Preliminary designs for ironwork railings, c1776
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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
Robert Adam
Watermark
PROPATRIA - Maid of Dort
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 23
Level
Drawing
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