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  • image SM Adam volume 20/86

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/86

Purpose

[9] Design for a girandole, 1771

Aspect

Elevation with two candle branches issuing from a tall vase and another sketched in pencil on the right, and a pair of griffons flank the vase

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandol for The Duke of Bolton

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (189 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 48
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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