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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/41

Purpose

[17] Preliminary design for a candlestick for the dining room, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Unfinished elevation of a candelabrum, with a base, ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, and surmounted by winged griffons, and a turned shaft, ornamented with gadrooning, and surmounted by an urn ornamented with ram masks, connecting with serpentine foliate candle branches, ornamented with festoons

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Candlestick for William Weddell Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 13/05/1776
    Adelphi May 13t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (574 x 513)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 2001, p. 357
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 263
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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