[6] Full size working drawing for a clock bracket, c1761-63; there is no evidence that this was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace), The Mall, London: designs for the interior, an illumination, rebuilding the palace, and a pianoforte, for King George III and Queen Charlotte, 1761-1763, and 1780 (25)
      - Full size working drawings for a clock bracket, c1761-63; there is no evidence that this was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/20

Purpose

[6] Full size working drawing for a clock bracket, c1761-63; there is no evidence that this was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a bracket composed of large acanthus leaves ornamented with a half lion and half unicorn, arabesques, an anthemion, rosettes and calyx, and supporting a base for the clock ornamented with bands of acanthus leaves, enclosed anthemia and enclosed rosettes

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Front of a Bracket for a Clock / for His Majesty

Signed and dated

1761-1763
date range: 1761-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including lemon yellow and sepia on laid paper (405 x 373)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
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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