Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [8] Preliminary design for a girandole, 1772

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 25/212

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/212

Purpose

[8] Preliminary design for a girandole, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of a girandole, with a central lyre motif, ornamented with rosettes, a mask, an acorn, an anthemion, acanthus leaves, and a festoon of bell flowers, and supporting gadrooned candle branches, and further festoons (verso) rough pencil-drawn urn ornamented with gadrooning, ram masks, and candle branches

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (322 x 318)

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk