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  • image SM Adam volume 19/148

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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