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[1] Rough preliminary design showing a plan of the the top of a harpsichord case, 1774, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/7
Purpose
[1] Rough preliminary design showing a plan of the the top of a harpsichord case, 1774, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough plan of the top of the harpsichord. The top is tripartite, with two rectangular outer compartments being ornamented with a fan and foliate ornamentation on one side, and a figurative roundel on the other. The central compartment has a segmental section cut away for the player of the instrument, and is ornamented with triangular compartments, one of which contains a lyre crossed by flutes within an oval panel, and elsewhere the ornamentation is composed of arabesques
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on sugar paper (464 x 265)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 257
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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