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  • image SM Adam volume 52/174

Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/174

Purpose

Design for a lamp, 1772

Aspect

Elevation and profile of a wall-mounted lamp supported by a tripod console, and with a central fluted tapering shaft ornamented with ram masks and an urn, and the tripod supports a fluted base with an apron of ox skulls and swags, and this is surmounted by a further, paw-foot tripod, surmounted by an urn with ram masks, and finally an urn-shaped lamp ornamented with gadrooning and beading

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 15 December 1772
    Adelphi / 15 December 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (273x417)

Hand

Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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