[29] Design for a girandole for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, 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 design for a girandole for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/178

Purpose

[29] Design for a girandole for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, as Adam 20/177, with the outline of a sofa below

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandol for the Drawing room at Bathurst House

Signed and dated

January 1778
Adelphi / 31. Janry 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (292 x 440)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 88
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 11
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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

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