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  • image SM Adam volume 54/3/30

Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/3/30

Purpose

[26] Preliminary design for a milestone, 1760, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation with a single-step stylobate, a circular pedestal ornamented with lion masks and festoons, supporting bands of acanthus and laurel leaves, a spiral fluted shaft banded with a rectangular inscription panel, and surmounted by a socle carrying a domed top and a small figurative sculpture

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Road to Leeds

Signed and dated

  • 1760
    datable to 1760

Medium and dimensions

Brown pencil on laid paper (122 x 261)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1987, p. 90; King, 2001, Volume II, p. 220
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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