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London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a parliamentary mace showing a decorated shaft topped by a royal crown over a monogram of G.R.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/19
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a parliamentary mace showing a decorated shaft topped by a royal crown over a monogram of G.R.
Aspect
Detail
Scale
2 3/8" to 1 '
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand The maces of the House peers and Commons are the Same and Scale of one Foot
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, ink wash on brown tracing paper
374 x 96, right-hand side of drawing cut off apart from section at bottom with scale
Hand
James Adam (Attributed to)
Notes
This design for the mace and that for the Lord Chancellor's seal (see Adam vol.7/20) are part of James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1763. This mace is shown in the Speaker scenes in Adam vol.7/24 and 25, and in the sculpture group in 7/37. The handwriting is probably that of James Adam, and the neat and painstaking draughtsmanship is also likely to be his.
Level
Drawing
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