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Mr Macdonald: design for a bookcase for an unknown house, 1778, not known to have been executed (1)
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Mr Macdonald: design for a bookcase for an unknown house, 1778, not known to have been executed (1)
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- 1778
Notes
Mr Macdonald is unknown, but Bolton has suggested that this may have been William Macdonald (b 1732) who was Secretary of the Highland Society in 1784-1804. In 1778 he commissioned Adam to make a design for a bookcase, but the intended location for the bookcase is unknown, and the design is not known to have been executed.
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 56, 79; E. Harris, The furniture of Robert Adam, 1963, p. 59
Frances Sands, 2015
Literature:
A.T. Bolton, The architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, Volume II, Index pp. 56, 79; E. Harris, The furniture of Robert Adam, 1963, p. 59
Frances Sands, 2015
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