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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/3/39

Purpose

[120] Preliminary design for a cornice for the music room, c1761-62

Aspect

Two rough elevations showing the same cornice design, ornamented with bands of acanthus leaves, dentils, laurel leaf tips, enclosed rosettes, fluting, and with a volute modillion
  • image SM Adam volume 54/3/39

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Ionick Cornish for Sr Nat Curzon / Music Room (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1761-1762
    datable to c1761-62

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (184 x 89)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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

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