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Preliminary design for a bookcase, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/177
Purpose
Preliminary design for a bookcase, ND
Aspect
Rough elevation of a three-bay , pedimented bookcase, articulated by Ionic pilasters, and ornamented with enclosed rosettes, figures and strigilation in the lower register, and with acroterion, Vitruvian scroll and busts in the upper register, and the whole is surmounted by a secondary segmental, scrolling pediment across the central bay
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (125x136)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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