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[49] Design for a chandelier for the Etruscan dressing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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