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  • image SM Adam volume 25/46

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/46

Purpose

[106] Designs for unknown borders, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of gilded cresting or borders, the first composed of calyx, and anthemia enclosed within pyramids, the second composed of anthemia, and calyx, the third composed of curving bands forming lozenges enclosed rosettes, and supporting laurel leaves, and the fourth composed of spear-head crockets

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Borders for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

  • December 1779
    Adelphi / 1st Decr 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (281 x 154)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
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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