[85] Design for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776

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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
      - Alternative designs for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, drawing 86 executed with minor alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/96

Purpose

[85] Design for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776

Aspect

Perspective of a chair with square, tapered legs and block feet, ornamented with lion masks, rosettes, and bell flowers, a seat rail, and back ornamented with rosettes and bell flowers, arms in the form of winged griffons, a seat with a central rosette enclosed within a fan, and with a border of rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbon, and with an urn-shaped back splat, ornamented with fluting, gadrooning, a cameo, ram masks, fret, acanthus leaves, arabesques, anthemia, a small rectangular tablet containing a lion, and an enclosed rosette

Scale

measured

Inscribed

A Design of a Chair for the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley

Signed and dated

January 1776
Adelphi Janry 25t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and sepia wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (356 x 500)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 95
Tomlin, 1972, p. 77
Harris, 2001, pp. 178-179
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
Piranesi as Designer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 14 September 2007 - 27 January 2008; Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 9 February - 12 May 2008

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