[53] Design for a clock encasement, c1778, not known to have been 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 and designs for clock encasements, c1778, not known to have been executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/32

Purpose

[53] Design for a clock encasement, c1778, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a clock case, ornamented with a bands of enclosed rosettes and enclosed anthemia, festoons, and ram masks. The clock face is enclosed within a wreath of husks. The case is surmounted by an urn, flanked by winged griffins, and ornamented with arabesques, guilloche, and rosettes. Above this there is a fluted socle bearing a sphinx

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

L Bathurst (pencil) / Watch cases (pen)

Signed and dated

c1778
c1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and Indian yellow wash on laid paper (443 x 299)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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