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  • image SM Adam volume 27/60

Reference number

SM Adam volume 27/60

Purpose

Design for a bed, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a bed, articulated by Doric pilasters with fluted capitals. The bed has a frieze of Vitruvian scroll and the bed head is ornamented with rosettes supporting festoons of husks and arabesques supporting a calyx bearing a basket of flowers. Above there are swags and a frieze ornamented with a band of semi-circular compartments. The bed is surmounted by a dome, which is ornamented with further swags and the dome supports an urn

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (325x271)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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