[18] Preliminary design for a girandole for the drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Preliminary design for a girandole for the drawing room, c1779, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/26

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for a girandole for the drawing room, c1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, formed with a central tablet ornamented with rosettes, ribbons and festoons, flanked by branches bearing oil lamps, and surmounted by arabesques bearing an urn. The urn is ornamented with gadrooning, festoons, a band of Vitruvian scroll, and ram masks, and is surmounted by an anthemion and an arched band of calyx. The tablet has an apron consisting of a figurative roundel, olive branches, festoons, and an anthemion with a pendent peltoid shield

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Humes Drawing room

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (184 x 227)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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