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

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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 49/52

Purpose

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

Aspect

Plan of a chair seat, ornamented with rinceau, including a central anthemion, supported by a fan and calyx, and with a border of figure-of-eight olive leaves, enclosing calyx and rosettes

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Design of a Chair Back for Baron Ord Coloured in same manner as Mrs Montagues

Signed and dated

c.1770-71
datable to 1770-71

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (639x494)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Footed P

Notes

This is the same design as SM Adam volume 49/51, a record drawing for a chair seat design for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, c.1766, for her house at 23 (now 31) Hill Street, London.

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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