Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Design and finished drawing for a sideboard table for the ante room, 1765, unexecuted (2)

Browse

Purpose

Design and finished drawing for a sideboard table for the ante room, 1765, unexecuted (2)

Notes

Adam volumes 17/1-2 were not executed at Syon, but their design was published in volume II of The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam as being for Lord Bute. This is either an incorrect attribution, or the table was executed for Bute, and is now lost.

The three executed sideboard tables in the ante room make use of a modified version of Adam's design for sideboard tables for the dining room (Adam volume 17/3).

Today, as well as Adam's executed sideboard table in the ante room, there is also some nineteenth-century seat furniture from Northumberland House.

Level

Group

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).  


Contents of Design and finished drawing for a sideboard table for the ante room, 1765, unexecuted (2)