[42] Unfinished design for a segmental table for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Unfinished design, finished drawing and working drawing for a segmental table and table slab for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third drawing room, 1779, possibly executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/47

Purpose

[42] Unfinished design for a segmental table for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Part plan of a segmental table top ornamented with a patera enclosed within a fan. Beyond this there is a central figurative tablet, surmounted by an urn and with an apron of ribbons, festoons and a mask. This is flanked by ribbons and festoons with pendent roundels. The slab is bordered by a band flanked by further bands of beading Elevation of a table frame with Ionic, tapering legs. The capitals contain paterae and there is a frieze ornamented with paterae, anthemia and figrative medallions, and this has an apron of festoons

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Table frame & top for Lady Bathurst’s Dressing room

Signed and dated

June 1779
19th June 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, cerulean and Indian yellow on laid paper (274 x 376)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Preliminary design for a table elevation comparable to SM Adam 17/47, (pen and pencil)

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, p.57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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