[60] Finished drawing for the state bed, 1775

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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 17/156

Purpose

[60] Finished drawing for the state bed, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of four-poster, domed canopy bed, with paired fluted posts on pedestals, surmounted by winged griffons, enclosed anthemia crockets, and an ornamental dome, and with a tester of tassels and lambrequins ornamented with arabesques, oak leaves, and poppies, hanging below a bed rail of guilloche, and with a head board composed of putti flanking a portrait medallion, surmounted by dolphins, and with a pencil-drawn plan in the bottom left-hand corner

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Bed for Robert Child Esqr and some measurements (in pencil)

Signed and dated

October 1775
Adelphi Oct. 11t. 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (367 x 518)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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