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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)

Working drawing for a table possibly for the bedchamber, c1779, possibly executed (1)

There are two known tables which comparable in design for this working drawing for Apsley House. The first is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (D.62.a-b-1970), and the second was last known to be in the collections of furniture dealer Nicholas Grindley, London.
Harris suggests that the tables may have been intended for the bedchamber, with a similar use of ornamentation evident in a drawing for an oval a pier glass designed for this room (Adam volume 20/173).

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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)

[49] Working drawing for a table possibly for the bedchamber, c1779, possibly executed

c1779

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 49/44

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