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[56] Full size unfinished working drawing for part of a pilaster for one of the drawing rooms, 1780-85, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/271
Purpose
[56] Full size unfinished working drawing for part of a pilaster for one of the drawing rooms, 1780-85, unexecuted
Aspect
Full size elevation of an ornamental detail for a pilaster, composed of fluting enclosing laurel leaves, and figure-of-eight ribbons enclosing flowers
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Duke of Cumberlands Pilaster
Signed and dated
- 1780-1785
date range: 1780-1785
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including black and yellow ochre on laid paper (208 x 392)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, p. 78
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 78
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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