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  • image SM Adam volume 6/150

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/150

Purpose

Preliminary design for a sofa, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a sofa with a cupid’s bow top rail ornamented by cresting which includes a palmette and arabesques, a seat rail ornamented with guilloche (?), and turned, strigilled legs ornamented with petals and masks which terminate in spade feet

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on sugar paper (480x281)

Hand

probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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