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Preliminary design for the great drawing room girandole, 1774, as executed (1)
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Preliminary design for the great drawing room girandole, 1774, as executed (1)
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The design for the great drawing room girandoles is included in the second volume of The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam (part 1, plate 5), and is illustrated in accordance with this drawing. Adam's preface to this plate reads:
Inside View of the Third and Great Withdrawing-room. The ornaments of the cieling and entablature are cheifly stucco gilt, with a mixture of paintings. The grounds are coloured with various tints. The frames for glasses, the pedestals and vases in the niches, and the girandoles on the piers, are of wood gilt...
Here it is suggested that the girandoles - in both Adam's drawing and the Works - are shown as executed. They were carved by Sefferin Nelson, but are not known to have survived.
Inside View of the Third and Great Withdrawing-room. The ornaments of the cieling and entablature are cheifly stucco gilt, with a mixture of paintings. The grounds are coloured with various tints. The frames for glasses, the pedestals and vases in the niches, and the girandoles on the piers, are of wood gilt...
Here it is suggested that the girandoles - in both Adam's drawing and the Works - are shown as executed. They were carved by Sefferin Nelson, but are not known to have survived.
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