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  • image SM Adam volume 20/9

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/9

Purpose

[77] Record drawing for alternative mirror and girandoles for a window pier in the drawing room, 1767

Aspect

Half drawn elevation of a girandole of candle branches arranged around an oval mirror, ornamented with acanthus leaves, festoons, and hung from a mask on figure-of-eight bell flowers enclosing anthemia, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandole for the Great Drawing room at Kedleston

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (191 x 406)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Harris, 1987, p. 40
Harris, 2001, pp. 29, 337
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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