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  • image SM Adam volume 29/102

Reference number

SM Adam volume 29/102

Purpose

[14] Preliminary design for a coach panel, 1775-76, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular decorative coach panel, ornamented with a central roundel within wreaths of ferns and calyx, surrounded by arabesques, rosettes and peltoid shields, and with a border of alternating anthemia, and anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, and with large calyx in each corner

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Pannell for Lord Cathcart Coach (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1775-76
    datable to 1775-76

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (879 x 515)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IVILLEDARY and LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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