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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Preliminary design and design for the staircase lantern, September 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/41

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan and elevation of an octagonal glazed lantern, with a central two-tiered lantern hung from a chain ornamented with calyx, and within an octagonal frame, ornamented with bands of anthemia, and double calyx, and with winged sphinxes around the base, supporting drops composed of calyx, urns, enclosed rosettes, and anthemia, and surmounted by anthemia on scrolls hung from ram masks, and the whole has a conical framework, surmounted by a gadrooned flower

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Lantern for Lord Derby's Staircase

Signed and dated

15/09/1774
Adelphi Sepr 15th 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow, cerulean blue, and verdigris on laid paper (291 x 443)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, pp. 283, 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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