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[66] Preliminary design for a panel for a window shutter, c1775, possibly executed
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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
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.
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 27
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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