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[41] Design for a girandole for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/179
Purpose
[41] Design for a girandole for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1778, possibly executed
Aspect
Elevation of a girandole composed of a central figurative tablet, of tabula ansata form, flanked by candle branches and with an apron of an ox skull, festoons, peltoid shields, drop calyx, rosettes, and a central medallion enclosed within a wreath. The tablet is surmounted by a pair of reclining heraldic stags, calyx, arabesques and anthemion, and this is surmounted by a further medallion enclosed within a wreath. Above this there is a further tablet ornamented with a rosette and swags, with an apron of festoons, calyx and an anthemion, and all this is surmounted by an urn
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Girandol for Lady Bathurst’s Dressing room
Signed and dated
- January 1778
Adelphi / 31st Janry 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (242 x 431)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Watermark
JWHATMAN
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.
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk