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  • image SM Adam volume 6/127

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/127

Purpose

[2] Rough preliminary design showing a detail of an elevation of a harpsichord case, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough detail elevation with caryatid legs ornamented with bucrania and swags, surmounted by the case ornamented with a sphinx, vases, arabesques, and egg and dart moulding

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    datable to 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (268 x 158)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

King, 2001, Volume II, p. 257
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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