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  • image SM Adam volume 20/37

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/37

Purpose

[45] Finished drawing for a girandole for the gallery, 1770, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a pear-shaped girandole, ornamented with acanthus leaves, calyx, rosettes, anthemia, festoons, and two winged herms, and incorporating two candle branches, with an apron composed of a fan and festoons, and surmounted by festoons, wreaths, calyx, rosettes, a fan, and an anthemion, and with pencil-drawn annotations including two additional candle branches

Scale

bar scale of 1 7/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandole for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (241 x 404)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 87
Tomlin, 1972, p. 31
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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