[89] Alternative preliminary designs for pedestals, 1774-75; it is not known if these designs were 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)
      - Alternative preliminary designs and designs for unknown pedestal, 1774-75; it is not known if these designs were executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/7/261

Purpose

[89] Alternative preliminary designs for pedestals, 1774-75; it is not known if these designs were executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of two column-shaped pedestals. The left-hand pedestal has paw feet, a base ornamented with laurel leaves, and shaft ornamented with an enclosed rosette, a festoon, ram masks, and a frieze of connected enclosed rosettes, and is surmounted by an urn. The right-hand pedestal has a fluted stylobate, a tripod base composed of dolphins, the shaft is ornamented with a rectangular figurative panel, and the neck is ornamented with laurel leaves and handles

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1774-75
datable to 1774-75

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (166 x 165)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

Fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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