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  • image SM Adam volume 6/56

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/56

Purpose

[19] Record drawing for a tripod, c1775-83, as executed

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a tripod, with a base as Adam volume 6/48, surmounted by an urn, ornamented with gadrooning, lion masks, and swags (verso) rough pencil-drawn plan of the dining room showing the intended location of the four tripods in the apses

Scale

bar scake if 2 inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1775-83
    datable to 1775-83

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes of cerulean blue and sepia on laid paper (288 x 543)

Hand

Possibly Robert Adam (verso) Robert Adam

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Beard, 1978, p. 61
Cornforth, 1979, p. 2008
Harris, 2001, p. 357
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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