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  • image SM Adam volume 6/106

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/106

Purpose

[59] Preliminary design for a lantern for the staircase, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of an octagonal glass lantern, containing an oil lamp, and hung from above, with an apron of crockets, and each corner articulated by a winged sphinxes, and paired columns, and with a conical canopy, ornamented with swags, and supported by scrolls, and with a pencil-drawn plan below

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lantern for Lord Stanley / Green Glass / Green Glass

Signed and dated

  • September 1774
    datable to September 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (180 x 225)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, p. 362
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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