[61] Finished drawing for the state bed, 1776, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary design, and variant finished drawings for the state bed, 1775-76, drawings 61-62 as executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/157

Purpose

[61] Finished drawing for the state bed, 1776, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a four-poster, domed canopy bed, with paired fluted posts on pedestals, surmounted by winged sphinxes, enclosed anthemia crockets, festoons, and an alternative ornamental dome, and with a tester of tassels and lambrequins ornamented with anthemia, wreaths, and enclosed rosettes, and with a head board composed of putti flanking a portrait medallion, surmounted by dolphins

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Bed for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

May 1776
Adelphi / 16t May 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including verdigris and Indian yellow on laid paper (321 x 589)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 296; Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 99
Tomlin, 1972, p. 61
Beard, 1978, pp. 54, 66
Harris, 2001, p. 174
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
In Pursuit of Antiquity: Drawings by the Giants of British Neo-Classicism, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1 February - 1 June 2008; Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, 3 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

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