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  • image SM Adam volume 20/102

Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/102

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a girandole, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, composed of a central urn, ornamented with fluting, guilloche, ram masks, and a festoon, and flanked by candle branches, and ornamented with festoons, arabesques, rosettes, and anthemia

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Girandole for George Keate Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (606 x 449)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Harris, 1963, p. 54
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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