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Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/8

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing showing plans and an elevation of a harpsichord case, 1774, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan, elevation and profile. The plan shows the arrangement of eight legs, and the elevations show that the base of the instrument is ornamented with cable moulding, the legs with drops of calyx, swags and surmounted by enclosed rosettes, and the sides of the instrument are ornamented with cable moulding, griffons, half figures, arabesques, oval figurative panels, a centally placed urn, and a band of anthemia and calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Harpsichord for The Empress of Russia

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink, cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (405 x 585)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 257
Libin, 2001, pp. 355, 360
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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

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