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  • image Adam vol.7/139

Reference number

Adam vol.7/139

Purpose

London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for an urn with a crown as finial, gadrooned top with handles on either side, and a decorated spreading base.

Aspect

Detail

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink in a contemporary hand speaker and Holds three pints and with dimensions

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1762-63

Medium and dimensions

Pen on buff paper 148 x 73

Hand

James Adam

Notes

The word 'speaker' inscribed on the drawing suggests that this design is connected with James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63. It may be compared with his drawings for a Parliamentary mace in Adam vol.7/19 and for a purse for the Great Seal in Adam vol.7/20. There are no other versions of this design amongst the silver designs in Adam volume 25.

Level

Drawing

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

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