[49] Design for a chandelier for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Design for the Etruscan dressing room chandelier, November 1775; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/43

Purpose

[49] Design for a chandelier for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Half-drawn elevation of a chandelier, hung from a tassel, and with a central shaft composed of gadrooned tubular flowers, a gadrooned urn with guilloche, and an acorn, and with foliate and gadrooned candle branches, drops of lozenges, obelisk-shaped finials, and winged griffons (verso) pencil-drawn preliminary design for a carpet or ceiling

Scale

to a scale, possibly full sized

Inscribed

Lustred for Lady Derby’s Dressing room

Signed and dated

14/11/1775
Adelphi / Novr. 14t. 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washed including pink, cerulean blue, and Indian yellow on laid paper (408 x 707)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN / fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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