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  • image SM Adam volume 6/84

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/84

Purpose

[22] Preliminary design for a girandole candle branch for the music room, 1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a curved candle branch ornamented with foliage, and this supports a candle holder in the form of a tubular flower, and the holder is ornamented with bands of gadrooning, beading, foil, and fluting

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Branch for the Girandols in the Music Room at Sir W: W: W:

Signed and dated

  • August 1774
    Adelphi Aug.st 10.t 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (307 x 269)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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