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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 54/7/263

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of two alternative column-shaped pedestals, with stepped stylobates. The left-hand pedestal has a base ornamented with ox skulls and swags, a fluted shafts, lion(?) mask handles, and a socle-shaped capital ornamented with a cameo(?). The right-hand pedestal has a tripod base composed of dolphins(?), a shaft ornamented with rectangular figurative panels, mask handles flanking a frieze of Vitruvian scroll, and surmounted by a bowl supported by winged sphinxes

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

1774-75
datable to 1774-75

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (318 x 235)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Watermark

IV surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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