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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design, probably for a semi-circular doorhead, showing part of a lion, unicorn and a figure, with scrolling foliage. There is an Egg-and-Dart enrichment on the border.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/106
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design, probably for a semi-circular doorhead, showing part of a lion, unicorn and a figure, with scrolling foliage. There is an Egg-and-Dart enrichment on the border.
Aspect
Elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pen, black chalk
150 x 270 with central vertical fold line
Hand
Antonio Zucchi (attributed to)
Watermark
Fleur de lys in double circle
Notes
This composition may have been intended to embellish the top of some large doorway in James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63. The source for the decoration can be found in similar drawings in Adam volume 26, which contains James Adam's collection of drawings after the antique (see also Adam vol.7/87).
Level
Drawing
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