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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/60

Purpose

[43] Preliminary design for hanging lanterns for the staircase, c1768-79, executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough elevation showing a screen of two Corinthian columns, between which are three hanging glass lanterns, containing oil burners, hung from festoons, and ornamented with gadrooned lids, enclosed rosettes, and ram masks

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1768-1779
    date range: 1768-79

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (267 x 163)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Tomlin, 1972, p. 97
Beard, 1978, p. 41
Harris, 2001, p. 169
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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