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  • image SM Adam volume 25/128

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/128

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a candlestick, c1775, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a candlestick with a flared base ornamented with beading, fan work, leaf tips, and fluting. Above the base there is a panel containing on ox skull flanked by swags. The central support of the candlestick is tapered and fluted, and this terminates in an arabesque flanked by acanthus leaves. Above this there is a panel containing a patera set within an oval band of foil. The support is surmounted by a candle holder with a socle base and in the form of a tubular flower. The holder is ornamented with a band of reed and ribbon, and a band of enclosed calyx

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Candlestick for the Duke of Roxburghe / 50

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (201 x 406)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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