[10] Preliminary design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, 1772, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Wynnstay House, Ruabon, Denbighshire: unexecuted designs for the house, unexecuted designs for a monument to David Garrick for the park, and an executed design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, 1770-79 (13)
    - Preliminary design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, 1772, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/179

Purpose

[10] Preliminary design for a font for St Mary's Church, Ruabon, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a font, composed of an octagonal pedestal ornamented with quatrefoils, surmounted by three tapering legs ornamented with enclosed rosettes, and with claw and ball feet, and a wide stretcher ornamented with quatrefoils, and quatrefoils set between the legs, and with a top rail ornamented with quatrefoils, and winged masks, surmounted by an urn, with a socle ornamented with quatrefoils, and a body ornamented with trefoils, and pencil-drawn gadrooning

Scale

bar scale of 3 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Copy of a Font for Sir Watkin Williams Winn (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

1772
datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (319 x 435)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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