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Copy of an engraving of a decorative anthropomorphic ewer with several faces composed as handle, spout and base, shown in profile.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/162
Purpose
Copy of an engraving of a decorative anthropomorphic ewer with several faces composed as handle, spout and base, shown in profile.
Aspect
Study
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink 5.; in red ink 162.
Signed and dated
- Undated, eighteenth century
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes262 x 185, top 2 corners trimmed diagonally
Hand
Unidentified eighteenth-century artist
Notes
This drawing by an unidentified artist is an enlarged copy of a plate by Adam van Vianen (1569-1627) in Modelles Artificiels de divers vaisseaux d'argent (published by his son, Christian van Vianen, 1650), a copy of which was presumably in the library at Blair Adam. The source of this and other drawings in volume 56 (see Adam vol.56/6 and 7) are William Adam's collection of sixteenth-century books and prints.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
The Adam Brothers in Rome: Drawings from the Grand Tour, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 September 2008 - 14 February 2009
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