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  • image SM Adam volume 6/66

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/66

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a tripod and lantern for the staircase, c1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a baluster with a socle base ornamented with a patera, with capitals in the form of ram masks and a frieze of fluting. The tapering pilaster is ornamented with lion masks bearing festoons, bands of laurel leaf tips, and a band of fluting. The pilaster supports a glass lantern ornamented with a band of laurel leaf tips

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Lord Ashburnham’s Staircase (pencil) / 4 feet (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1774
    c1774

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (194 x 253)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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