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[107] Preliminary design for a work bag, 1776
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/233
Purpose
[107] Preliminary design for a work bag, 1776
Aspect
Elevation of a work bag, ornamented with an urn containing flowers, enclosed by a wreath, and four enclosed rosettes, and framed by a boarder of beading, rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, and a band of segmental enclosed rosettes
Scale
to a scale, possibly full sized
Inscribed
This to be Done on Grey Silk with / Tambore work - Mostly in the Etruscan / Style. Design for a Fire screen with a frame to it in the Style of / Lord Derbys - & about Same Size to be / Done in paper first & then the Lines / Marked upon the silk itself
Signed and dated
- 1776
datable to 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (284 x 396)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Harris, 1963, p. 51
Harris, 2010, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2010, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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