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  • image SM Adam volume 17/226

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/226

Purpose

[21] Design for a wine cistern, 1783, as executed

Aspect

Plan and elevation of rectangular, tapering wine cistern with apsidal ends, and ornamented with paw feet, lion mask handles, and a central rectangular panel surmounted by volutes and acroteria, and containing swags and a lunette-shaped compartment containing winged putti

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for a Wine Cistern for William Weddell Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1783
    datable to 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including lemon yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (375 x 294)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Harris, 1963, Index p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 357
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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