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  • image SM Adam volume 24/270

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/270

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a panel ornamented with a central peltoid shield embellished with a lion mask and swags, terminating in lion herms, and with an apron of rosettes and acanthus leaves. Above the shield there is an ox mask, ribbons, and festoons of beading which suspend oil lamps, with aprons of calyx and rosettes

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sir Abraham Hume / 49

Signed and dated

  • Feb 1779
    12 Feby 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, verdigris and Indian yellow (182 x 217)

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

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