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  • image SM Adam volume 49/36

Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/36

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a sundial, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a sundial decorated with winged sphinxes supporting a tapering concave lozenge-shaped pedestal adorned with ram heads, festoons and rosettes with an arabesque panel on the plinth above, supporting a vase-shaped stem with a slab decorated with a Vitruvian scroll above

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In the hand of William Adam) Dial for the Duke of Buccleugh / (verso) Dial for the Duke of Buccleugh

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including sepia on laid paper (983x1455)

Literature

Bolton, Volume II, Index, 1922, p. 9
King, Volume 2, 2001, p. 214
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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