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  • image SM Adam volume 20/211

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/211

Purpose

[86] Design for a girandole for an unknown room, c1779; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, composed of a central medallion, surmounted by arabesques, a tablet containing a rosette flanked by swags, and an urn, and the medallion has an apron of calyx, arabesques supporting candle branches, festoons, a vesica-shaped medallion, and a short drop of calyx and tubular flowers

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Girandole for George Hesse Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and violet and terre verte wash on laid paper (173 x 221)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
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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