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  • image SM Adam volume 53/27 (part)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/27 (part)

Purpose

[2] Record drawing for frieze, ND, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a frieze for an unknown room, composed of alternating peltoid shields, accompanied by crossed arrows, and cameos enclosed within wreaths of beading, each enclosed within a wreath of ribbon, ornamented with calyx, and swags, and with double calyx between each wreath

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mr Hamilton (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on the laid paper of the folio page (291 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 49
For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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