[32] Design for a watch chain for Lady Shelburne, c1765-71

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/37

Purpose

[32] Design for a watch chain for Lady Shelburne, c1765-71

Aspect

Elevation of a gilt watch chain ornamented with oval panels inset with jewels, and ornamented with half figures and arabesques, and from these hangs a peltoid shield ornamented with a miniature medallion

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Warch (sic) Chain for Lady Shelburne / Lady Shelburne (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1765-1771
date range: 1765-71

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (149 x 235)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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