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  • image SM Adam volume 6/70

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/70

Purpose

[11] Working drawing for a candlestick, c1763-85

Aspect

Elevation of a candlestick in the form of a turned column, ornamented with gadrooning, fluting acanthus leaves, festoons, enclosed patera, calyx enclosed by foils, and spiral fluting

Scale

to a scale, possibly full size

Inscribed

Sir John Griffin Bart (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1763-65
    date range: 1763-85

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (177 x 641)

Hand

Robert Adam, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
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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