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  • image SM Adam volume 17/36

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/36

Purpose

[62] Working drawing for a table slab, 1779

Aspect

Plan of a table slab as Adam volume 17/37, but with a roundel depicting a winged sphinx, and the tablet has a border of laurel leaf tips

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Design of a slab for Sir Abraham Hume Baronet / (cropped) 1779 / Adelphi

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    (cropped) 1779 / Adelphi

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, Indian yellow and pink on laid paper (625 x 455)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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