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Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/21

Purpose

[23] Working drawing for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of the central panel of a commode, composed of a roundel, within bands of beading, and guilloche, with an arrangement of calyx, arabesques, rosettes, and an anthemion in one corner, and surmounted by a band containing an urn, rosettes, and arabesques of acanthus

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Copy of an Ornament for Mr Childs Commode

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (420 x 629)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 75
Tomlin, 1972, 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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