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  • image SM Adam volume 25/114

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/114

Purpose

[80] Finished drawing for a serving platter, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a serving platter in the form of a fan. The platter is ornamented with a shell, and is bordered with a semi-circular-headed band, and a band of beading. The outer edge is ornamented with a band of fans flanked by calyx and enclosed within a semi-circular-headed band of beading

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Watkin Wynn Baronet / 37. / 114 (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • March 1773
    Adelphi / 9.t March 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (321 x 452)

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

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