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  • image SM Adam volume 17/101

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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