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[16] Design of a herm and lamp for the passage leading to the dining room and drawing room, c1780, executed with minor alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/68
Purpose
[16] Design of a herm and lamp for the passage leading to the dining room and drawing room, c1780, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Elevation of a lamp on a herm pedestal, with the tapered column decorated with a drop composed of a lion mask, calyx, diminishing figure-of-eight oak leaves, enclosed rosette, peltoid shield and tubular flower, and with a capital containing an elliptical enclosed rosette and a festoon of husk. The herm is surmounted by a glass lamp
Scale
bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Term & lamp for the passage leading to the Dining room & Drawing room at Byram / 68 / Scale of / Feet
Signed and dated
- c1780
datable to c1780
Medium and dimensions
Pen on laid paper (420 x 275)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Literature
Boton, 1922, Volume II, p. 307, Index p. 5
Harris, 1963, p. 48
Spiers, 1979, p. 30, Index, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 48
Spiers, 1979, p. 30, Index, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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