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Arc of Architectonic Sector, attributed to George Adams, English, c. 1765

Inventory Number 40175


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.40175

Item type
Object
Provenance
Lent by the Oxford City & County Museum.
Physical material
Brass
Object type
Sector
Inventory No
40175
Accession Number
1973-15

Description

Constructed to the pattern of Joshua Kirby as published in The Perspective of Architecture, 1761. George Adams senior is the only known maker of this particular form of architectonic sector.

For a separately surviving pair of sectoral legs for this pattern of instrument, see inv. 76416.