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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/177

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

Level

Drawing

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