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[66] Preliminary design for a girandole for Lady Wynn’s dressing room, c1775
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/38
Purpose
[66] Preliminary design for a girandole for Lady Wynn’s dressing room, c1775
Aspect
Elevation of a girandole with a fluted base in the form of a tubular flower, and this has an apron consisting of a mask and a festoon suspending a rosette. The base is ornamented with a band of beading and drop calyx, and supports an urn ornamented with gadrooning, a cameo, and ram masks. The urn supports a pair of candle branches, from which festoons of calyx are suspended
Scale
bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Pilastory (underwritten in pencil) / Lady Williams Wynn’s Dressing room / NB. The Branches & festoons over M[_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _] / should be made to take off. & only to be [_ _ _ _ _ _] / when the Room is to be lighted up- (all underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1775
c1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (195 x 261)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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