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  • image SM Adam volume 17/134

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/134

Purpose

[110] Record drawing for an embroidery design for a circular pole screen, 1779, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a circular embroidery design for a pole screen as Adam volume 52/154, but with flowers enclosed within the lozenges in the border

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Screen for Mrs Child B

Signed and dated

  • November 1779
    Adelphi / 4t Novr 177[9 torn away]

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, terre verte and Indian yellow on laid paper (371 x 420)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, p. 51
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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