Design for a latch, ND

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Other
  - Unattributed drawings
    - Unattributed designs for furniture and fixtures
      - Door furniture and keys

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/68

Purpose

Design for a latch, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a latch with a peltoid shield-shaped base plate, ornamented with enclosed rosettes, a fan, palmettes, acanthus leaves, crowned chicken/cockerel heads (heraldic?) and calyx, and with a handle ornamented with acanthus leaves and fluting. Rough pencil-drawn variants of the design are also included on the sheet

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Shutter latches

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes in laid paper (525x332: on the same sheet as Adam volume 25/66-67)

Hand

Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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