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  • image Adam vol.7/20

Reference number

Adam vol.7/20

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for the embroidered purse of the Lord Chancellor, showing the royal arms with supporters and motto in a rectangle with border of winged masks.

Aspect

Detail

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand Purse in which the Lord Chancellor carrys the Great Seal

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen, ink wash on brown tracing paaper 130 x 156, trimmed left side

Hand

James Adam (Attributed to)

Notes

Like the mace design in Adam vol.7/19, this is part of James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/3; it is probable that both drawing and inscription are in James Adam's hand.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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