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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/101
Purpose
Design for an Etruscan style chair, ND
Aspect
Part-drawn elevation of an upholstered side chair with a cupid’s bow top rail. The back is ornamented with guilloche, olive leaves and an urn, and the seat is ornamented with guilloche, olive leaves and a patera. The seat rail, a band of alternating palmettes and calyxes, is supported by knees with patera and Marlborough legs ornamented by bellflowers
Scale
bar scale of 4 inches to 1 foot
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes on laid paper (405x501)
Hand
Adam office hand
Level
Drawing
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