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  • image SM Adam volume 20/87

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/87

Purpose

[15] Design for a girandole for an unknown room, 1771, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, with a central urn supporting candle branches, supported by an acanthus leaf wall bracket, and with an apron of festoons, and hung by chains from a lion mask flanked by rinceaux, and with a rough, cropped, pencil-drawn alternative shown to the right-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandole for General Burgoyne

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and Indian yellow and sepia wash on laid paper (241 x 407)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55
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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