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  • image SM Adam volume 24/269

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/269

Purpose

[30] Design for an ornamental panel, possibly for a drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central urn embellished with gadrooning, beading and a band of guilloche. This is enclosed within a circular band of beading and a lozenge surrounded by thyrsi

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / Adelphi / 48

Signed and dated

  • Feb 1779
    Adelphi / 12. Febry 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, Indian yellow and olive green on laid paper (185 x 203)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
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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