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  • image Adam vol.7/81

Reference number

Adam vol.7/81

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Design for a decorative panel showing a winged half-figure with a lion and unicorn on either side, with foliage and rosettes.

Aspect

Elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil on buff paper 119 x 213

Hand

James Adam, Office of

Notes

The lion and unicorn suggest that this panel design was intended for James Adam's Parliament House scheme and is the counterpart of Adam's British Order (see Adam vol.7/69). The classical sources for the composition can be found in James Adam's collection of drawings after the antique in Adam volume 26.

Level

Drawing

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