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[111] Preliminary design for embroidery designs for a circular pole screen, 1779, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/152
Purpose
[111] Preliminary design for embroidery designs for a circular pole screen, 1779, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan of a circular embroidery design for a pole screen, with a central medallion containing flowers, flanked by urns supported by thyrsi, with a apron of festoons, and beneath are further festoons supporting birds, and set within a circular frame ornamented with wreaths, and enclosed anthemia. Below is another embroidery design for a pole screen, with a central medallion containing flowers, encircled by a wreath, and by roundels and festoons hanging from a circular frame ornamented with trefoils
Scale
rough bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
1st a Border of / Voilets in the / Natural Colours / 2d Green flowers / with pink flowers / 3d Japan[ _ _ _ ] / with Yellow / flowers, & / Green leaves / 4th Green od / Natural flowers / The fillets a / Darkish Chocolate / Colour and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1779
datable to 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (196 x 301)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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