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  • image SM Adam volume 27/45

Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/45

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for the exterior door and flanking windows, c1763, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a pair of glazed double doors, with rosettes ornamenting the lower register, and with an architrave ornamented with Corinthian pilasters with fluted paw feet, and scrolled hearts of foliage enclosing rosettes in the shafts, and surmounted by a lintel ornamented with lion masks, and alternating anthemia and double calyx, and the door is flanked by windows

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • c1763
    datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (497 x 353)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Scara or Benedetto Napoletano

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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