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  • image SM Adam volume 25/55

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/55

Purpose

[46] Design for lock furniture, c1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of lock furniture, with a door handle ornamented with a rosette set within a fan and a circular band of Vitruvian scroll. The handle is surrounded by a circular reed band, and this links to a further reed band enclosing a rosette, and a band enclosing an acanthus leaf supporting a rosette and anthemion, which form the lock covering. The lock is flanked by festoons and rosettes set within wreaths

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

[De]sign (cropped) of the furniture for the Locks at The Earl (cropped) / Ashburnham House in Dover Street / 8 / 55 (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1774
    c1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and Indian yellow wash on laid paper (236 x 170)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 298
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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