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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/68
Purpose
Preliminary design for a lamp, ND
Aspect
Rough elevation of a octagonal, urn-shaped lamp on a socle, with a tapering lid, and resting on a bracket of foliage and a lion mask. With a tripartite, pencil drawn variant lamp underneath, composed of tapering terms, connected by swags, with a fluted lid, and ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll and scrolling heats. With a variant of the bracket to the right-hand side, with a fan or shell at the base, and an apron of swags
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
a Large Lamp for the Nich of the Hall / 2 Smaller Do for the Recess at Other / end
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (170x220)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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