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[3] Record drawing for a garden seat, c1770, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 19/148
Purpose
[3] Record drawing for a garden seat, c1770, unexecuted
Aspect
Plan and elevation as Adam volume 4/28, but not set within a landscape, and the central bay is ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll, and enclosed rosettes, and the end bays are articulated by spirally fluted Corinthian columns instead of Doric, and the whole has a frieze of ox skulls connected by festoons
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Garden Seat for William Rouet Esqr. at Bel Retiro (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1770
datable to c1770
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (421 x 546)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 215
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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