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  • image SM Adam volume 6/54

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/54

Purpose

[99] Preliminary design for a tripod and candelabrum, 1777, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a candelabrum with a socle base, which supports a tripod with paw feet and sabre legs flanking a turned support. The capitals are ornamented with ram masks which suspend festoons, and set above this there is an urn ornamented with gadrooning, ram masks, and bands of Vitruvian scroll and anthemia. The urn is flanked by sabre supports and a pair of candle branches

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Stand for Candles for Sir W. W. Wynne Bart

Signed and dated

  • April 1777
    Adelphi 26th April 1777.-

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (199 x 321)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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