Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [78] Finished drawing for a serving dish, 1773, possibly executed

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 25/112

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/112

Purpose

[78] Finished drawing for a serving dish, 1773, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a serving dish holder, with a base ornamented with a semi-circular-headed band, and this supports winged griffins which bear dishes. The dishes are ornamented with gadrooning and have individual handles. A central turned support, ornamented with gadrooning and vine leaves, forms a principal handle

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Watkin Wynn Bart- / W W W (pencil) / 35

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    Adelphi / 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (175 x 227)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
Fairclough, 1995, pp. 376-386
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk