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  • image SM Adam volume 17/22

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/22

Purpose

[41] Unfinished design for scagliola tables, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a table with turned feet surmounted by tablets containing rosettes, and with fluted, tapering legs surmounted by a band of beading. The table has capitals in the form of ram masks bearing swags. The frieze is ornamented with fluting and arabesques supporting anthemia flanked by calyx, and there is an apron of swags and wreaths. Above the frieze and beneath the scagiola top there is a band of beading and of laurel leaf tips

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Frame for the Scagliola Tables. / for Sir Watkin Wynn Baronet / 22

Signed and dated

  • August 1773
    Adelphi August 24 / 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (358 x 244)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Harris, 2013, pp. 390-95
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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