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[2] Design for a garden seat, c1770, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/117
Purpose
[2] Design for a garden seat, c1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a single-storey, three-bay garden seat, with a curved recess in the central bay, ornamented with a fan, and an inscription panel, and containing a curved bench, ornamented with a tablet of strigillation, and the central bay is flanked by narrow end bays, supported by projecting pedestals containing tablets of festoons, and above are urn-filled niches, and the whole is surmounted by a frieze of festoons, with figurative tablets above the end bays
Scale
bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot
Signed and dated
- c1770
datable to c1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (327 x 230)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
XD&BS within a cartouche
Level
Drawing
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