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  • image SM Adam volume 6/68

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

Level

Drawing

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