[2] Preliminary design for a candlestick, 1775, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Preliminary designs, design and finished drawings for urns, candelsticks and a candelabrum, c1775, possibly executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/58

Purpose

[2] Preliminary design for a candlestick, 1775, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a candlestick with a flared base ornamented with beading and laurel leaf tips, with a panel containing an ox skull flanked by swags above. The tapering, fluted central support terminates in an anthemion flanked by arabesques and acanthus leaves. Above this there is a panel containing a rosette set within a foil roundel, flanked by festoons, and this is surmounted by a candle holder. The holder is ornamented with gadrooning, arabesques, beading and fluting

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Candlestick for His Grace (rubbed out) / Candlestick for His Grace The Duke of Roxburghe / 14 Inches high- / - Square between these two points only- / above & below Circular- / taken off here / a Square pipe / fitted to a Square / Base-

Signed and dated

August 1775
Margate 29 (rewritten) st August 1775 / Robt Adam

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (224 x 373)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Notes

This drawing has fold marks as if it has been posted.

Literature

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

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