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Unfinished design showing the decoration of tori moulding with laurel leaves at the top, anthemion and Guilloche at the bottom. Above is an oak leaf detail.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/100
Purpose
Unfinished design showing the decoration of tori moulding with laurel leaves at the top, anthemion and Guilloche at the bottom. Above is an oak leaf detail.
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Details
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil guidelines
267 x 331
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Notes
This drawing is another version of decoration for the base of a column shown in Adam vol.7/89, presumably from James Adam's Parliament House scheme, or possibly his royal theatre scheme, see Adam vol.7/184. There is a detail of Guilloche work in Adam vol.7/99.
Amongst the collection of Albani drawings that James Adam had is a sheet of decorated column bases from the Forum of Augustus in Rome, which may have served as a model for this drawing (see Campbell 2004, I, p.235).
Amongst the collection of Albani drawings that James Adam had is a sheet of decorated column bases from the Forum of Augustus in Rome, which may have served as a model for this drawing (see Campbell 2004, I, p.235).
Level
Drawing
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