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  • image SM Adam volume 18/22

Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/22

Purpose

[22] Preliminary design for the lid of a tureen, 1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of a lid for a tureen, with an oval handle, and ornamented with waterleaf, beading, festoons, a band of foliage, enclosed poppies, and a band of lozenges

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Cover for Dished D of Northd

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (315 x 249)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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