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  • image SM Adam volume 7/150

Reference number

SM Adam volume 7/150

Purpose

[57] Design for sedan chair poles, 1765

Aspect

Elevation ornamented with rosettes, figure-of-eights ending with a scrolled heart and ornamented with interspersed calyx and double calyx. The end of one pole is visible and is ornamented with acanthus leaves, a band of cable moulding and the end is in the form of a ram heads

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Ld Coventry['s] sedan chair

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    datable to 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and green wash on laid paper (252 x 112)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

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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