[20] Preliminary design for bracket for the library, c1777, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Preliminary design, design and record drawing for a bracket for the library, c1777, possibly executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/67

Purpose

[20] Preliminary design for bracket for the library, c1777, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan and elevations of a wall bracket and tripod candlestick. The wall bracket is semi-circular in plan, and ornamented with a pendent mask and fluting. The platform has an apron of lambrequins and supports a tripod candlestick with claw feet and tapering term legs which support an urn ornamented with gadrooning

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

The small tripod Candlestick / to stand on the Brackett (sic) / 3 In 3/4 over at / Battone (sic) / A Small Bracket Green & White for Lady / Homes Library

Signed and dated

c1777
c1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (165 x 159)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

Maid of Dort (cropped)

Literature

Whinney, 1969, p. 62
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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