[33] Working drawing for a large epergne, c1781

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
    - House and interior
      - Unfinished presentation drawings, and working drawings for a large epergne, c1781 (8)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/83

Purpose

[33] Working drawing for a large epergne, c1781

Aspect

Plan of an ornamental panel of a plateau, centred on a rosette, encircled by fluting and bands of laurel leaf motif, a band of large lobes, a band of enclosed acanthus leaves and rosettes, a band of acanthus leaves, a plume of acanthus leaves in the corner, and a border of cable moulding

Scale

full size

Inscribed

(verso) drawings for / Lord Mansfield (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including red, Prussian blue, and terre verte on laid paper (469 x 467)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Watermark

PVL

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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