[31] Unfinished presentation drawing for a large epergne, c1781

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
    - House and interior
      - Unfinished presentation drawings, and working drawings for a large epergne, c1781 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/30

Purpose

[31] Unfinished presentation drawing for a large epergne, c1781

Aspect

Plan of the table slab for an elaborate epergne, with square and rectangular compartments flanked by lobed lunettes, supporting a colonnade, and ornamented with anthemia, fans, calyx, urns, patera, acanthus leaves, griffons and peltoid shields

Scale

to a scale, from observation of the pencil drawn fruit in Adam volume 49/29 it appears that the scale of these drawings is about half size

Inscribed

Plateau for Lord Mansfield (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) (verso) Number 8 / Lord Mansfields Epergne

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, red, and Prussian blue on laid paper (1697 x 503)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PVL

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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

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