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  • image SM Adam volume 23/239

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/239

Purpose

Preliminary design for a cabinet, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a cabinet supported by two tapering legs with block feet, supporting a lintel ornamented with enclosed rosettes and festoons, surmounted by double doors ornamented with guilloche(?) and a panel containing a tripod perfume burner, and above is a fluted frieze with a central tablet containing an enclose rosette, above which are two urns

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

illegible pencil inscription / Dado (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (205x325)

Hand

probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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