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  • image Adam vol.26/54

Reference number

Adam vol.26/54

Purpose

Record drawing of a long rectangular panel showing part of a relief of branching foliage with tubular flowers and birds emerging in scrolls from an acanthus, and with a mouse at the bottom. Unfinished double border with Egg-and-dart and foliage.

Aspect

Elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1760 - 63

Medium and dimensions

Black chalk189 x 562, central vertical foldline

Hand

Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)

Notes

This antique panel is similar to other compositions of the same type in this volume, see Adam vol.26/75 and 77, although these lack the naturalistic detail in this drawing, which includes a mouse and several birds.

Level

Drawing

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

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