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  • image SM Adam volume 24/271

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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