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[60] 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 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.
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk