[47] Unfinished design for a table slab for the second drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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 17/50

Purpose

[47] Unfinished design for a table slab for the second drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a table slab ornamented with a part-patera and a figurative tablet depicting a figure reclining in a chariot driven by lions and putti. The tablet has an apron of an ox masks bearing swags, and this is flanked by festoons of calyx suspending cameos and rosettes. All this is set within a band of anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, and with rosette roundels set within calyx wreaths beyond. This is bordered by a semi-circular-headed band ornamented with calyx and arabesques. The table slab is bordered with a band of lozenges enclosing anthemia, flanked by bands of beading

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Slab for the Tables in the second Drawing room at Roxburghe House.- / 50 (pencil) / 50 (pencil)

Signed and dated

June 1779
19.t June 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, cerulean blue, olive green and Indian yellow on laid paper (445 x 235)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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