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  • image SM Adam volume 52/171

Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/171

Purpose

[20] Preliminary design for an ironwork balustrade for the top of the new loggia on the east front of the house, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a balustrade of turned columns, surmounted by two turned lamp stands with glass lamps, and there is a third pencil-drawn lamp

Scale

bar scale of 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Iron Work for the Platform over Vestible at Nostel. / A Lamp is proposed opposite each Column

Signed and dated

  • 02/03/1774
    Adelphi March 2d 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (292 x 221)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
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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