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[59] Preliminary design for a lantern for the staircase, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed
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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.
Harris, 2001, p. 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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