[24] Record drawing for a chair seat, c.1770-71, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
      - Record drawings of chair seat designs, c.1770-71 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/50

Purpose

[24] Record drawing for a chair seat, c.1770-71, executed status unknown

Aspect

Plan of a quadrilateral chair seat, ornamented with a central rosette within a fan enclosed by a circular frame containing Vitruvian scroll, with four corner sets of rinceaux framing anthemions supported by calyx pairs, and with a border of figure-of-eight olive leaves, enclosing calyx and rosettes

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Chair Bottom for Ld Chief Baron Ord according to the Dimensions mark’d with some dimensions

Signed and dated

c.1770-71
datable to 1770-71

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including pink, red, cerulean blue, olive green and Indian yellow on laid paper (604x505)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

D & G Blauw

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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