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  • image SM Adam volume 6/8

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/8

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for a girandole, 1772

Aspect

Rough elevation of a girandole, with a central lyre motif, ornamented with rosettes, a mask, an anthemion, acanthus leaves, and festoons of bell flowers, and supporting candle branches, and further festoons connected to flanking bows

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (130 x 126)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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