[50] Preliminary designs for a hanging lantern and a wall bracket with lantern, c1778, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Preliminary designs for a hanging lantern and a wall bracket with lantern, c1778, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/57

Purpose

[50] Preliminary designs for a hanging lantern and a wall bracket with lantern, c1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a pendent glass lantern, with ornamentation of ribbons and arabesques for the ceiling fitting. The lantern is ornamented with gadrooning, beading, a band of enclosed anthemia and rams masks, and has a central oil lamp, suspended by a chain. Below, there is an elevation of a wall bracket supporting a glass lantern ornamented with gadrooning and festoons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Earl Bathurst

Signed and dated

c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (234 x 381)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Pencil drawing

Watermark

LVG

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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