[17] Design for a tripod for the first drawing room, 1779, 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)
      - Design for a tripod for the first drawing room, 1779, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/65

Purpose

[17] Design for a tripod for the first drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripod with sabre legs linked by a spacer bearing an urn, and with hoof feet, all supported by a socle ornamented with arabesques. The tripod is ornamented with ram masks, and bears a basin embellished with gadrooning and enclosed anthemia. All this is surmounted by a three-branch candelabrum, flanked by winged sphinxes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Tripod for the first room at Sir Abraham Hume’s in Hill Street / 1779. / 65

Signed and dated

Jan 1779
Adelphi / 11. Janry / 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including Indian yellow on laid paper (195 x 279)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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