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[2] Preliminary design for a candlestick, 1775, executed with minor alterations
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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
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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