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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/36

Purpose

[46] Design for a girandole for the gallery, 1770, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 52/119, but the herms are without wings with their arms in an alternative position, and without pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Girandole for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1770
    1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (240 x 361)

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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