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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
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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