[40] Preliminary design for a candelabra and wall bracket for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary design for a candelabra and wall bracket for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/33

Purpose

[40] Preliminary design for a candelabra and wall bracket for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough elevation of a wall bracket ornamented with a mask, acanthus leaves, and a fluted top rail, supporting a candelabrum, ornamented with a spirally fluted base, a fluted, urn-shaped body, a spirally fluted neck, and four candle branches

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Hall at Osterly Robt Child Esqr

Signed and dated

1767-1779
date range: 1767-79

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (174 x 173)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Tomlin, 1972, p. 17
Harris, 2001, p. 169
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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