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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/49

Purpose

[64] Finished drawing for door furniture, c1767-68

Aspect

Elevation and profiles for gilded door furniture, with a central door knob, and ornamented with anthemia, calyx, acanthus leaves, guilloche and rosettes, and with pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Lock furniture (in the hand of William Adam) / Syon (in pencil in a modern curatorial hand)

Signed and dated

  • 1767-68
    datable to c1767-68

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including sepia and Indian yellow on laid paper (251 x 330)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, p. 109
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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