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  • image SM Adam volume 5/1

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/1

Purpose

[66] Preliminary design for a panel for a window shutter, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of an ornamental window shutter with a central tablet depicting an urn flanked by winged sphinxes surmounted by a pedestal bearing a turned support and urn. The tablet has an apron of ox skulls and festoons suspending rosettes, a rosette enclosed within a wreath and a pendent oil lamp

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lower panel in Window Shutter

Signed and dated

  • c1775
    c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (247 x 424)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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