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  • image SM Adam volume 25/92

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/92

Purpose

[106] Design for an urn motif plasterwork ornament, c1760-62

Aspect

Elevation of an urn on a socle ornamented with acanthus leaves and fluting, and a body ornamented with enclosed unlobed acanthus, and multiple male figures, with a neck ornamented with fluting and acanthus leaves, and double scrolled arms

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

For Sir Nathaniel Curzon Bart

Signed and dated

  • 1760-1762
    date range: 1760-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 607)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
Campbell Hatfield, 1981, p. 6
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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