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[43] Preliminary designs for girandoles for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 20/138
Purpose
[43] Preliminary designs for girandoles for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of two girandoles. The left-hand girandole is composed of a medallion, with an apron of arabesques and a lamp, and surmouted by an urn, with candle branches and festoons, and this is surmounted by a tubuar flower supporting winged sphinxes flanking an oval medallion and an anthemion. The right-hand girandole is composed of a medallion, with an apron of calyx and a tubular fower, and supporting an urn, with festoons and candle branches, and supporting sphinxes flanking a tripod perfume burner
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Girandoles for Lady Stanley's Dressing room / [cropped]leys (in pencil) / [cropped]ing room (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1774
1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (406 x 292)
Hand
Robert Adam
Watermark
LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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