Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [1] Design for a bookcase for an unknown house, 1778, not known to have been executed

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 17/223

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/223

Purpose

[1] Design for a bookcase for an unknown house, 1778, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a bookcase flanked by doors, with seven shelves descending in height from bottom to top, and protected by tassels, and the case is ornamented with lotus capital pilasters surmounted by oval enclosed rosettes, and a frieze of festoons, rosettes, and a central medallion

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Bookcase for Mr. Macdonald

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    Adelphi / 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washed including sepia and terre verte on laid paper (291 x 407)

Hand

Adam office, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
Harris, 1963, p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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