[46] Design for a table slab for the second drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Roxburghe House, Hanover Square, London, designs for a house and interiors for John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe, c1775-79 (55)
      - Design and unfinished design for a table slab for the second drawing room, 1779, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/49

Purpose

[46] Design for a table slab for the second drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a table slab ornamented with a fan embellished with calyx and set within a band of scrolled hearts enclosing calyx, and a band of scrolled hearts enclosing anthemia. Beyond this there are rosette roundels within wreaths of calyx, and a semi-circular-headed band enclosing arabesques and calyx. The table slab is bordered by a band of lozenges enclosing anthemia, and this is flanked by bands of beading

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Slab for the Tables in the second Drawing room at Roxburghe House. / 49 (pencil) / Folding Alteration Centre (pencil)

Signed and dated

June 1779
19.t June 1779-

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, olive green, Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (446 x 260)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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