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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.
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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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