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  • image SM Adam volume 24/232

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/232

Purpose

Preliminary designs for a balloon-back armchair, a part-drawn elevation of a table and a rough elevation of a candlestick(?), ND

Aspect

Clockwise from upper right: 1) Part-drawn rough elevation of a table with two turned legs culminating in spade feet and one tapering leg culminating in a ball foot, which are connected by a stretcher. A frieze is ornamented by laurel leaf tips and egg-and-dart 2) Rough elevation of a candlestick with two nozzles, a turned, fluted shaft and a pedestal ornamented by patera and festoons 3) Rough elevation of a balloon-back armchair surmounted by a cresting of a palmette and sphinxes (?) and framed by a band of ribbon. Two arms culminate in knuckle handles and an ornamented shoe piece connects the chair seat and back. A seat rail ornamented by coin moulding enclosing rosettes is supported by tapering legs terminating in spade feet

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (472x294)

Hand

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

Level

Drawing

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