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Reference number
SM Adam volume 54/7/70
Purpose
Preliminary design for a chair, ND
Aspect
Rough elevation of a side chair with a curved, heart-shaped back ornamented with crockets, rosettes, bellflowers and palmettes, motifs which continue in the seat’s ornament. The seat rail, a band of coin moulding enclosing rosettes, surmounts a scalloped skirt and is supported by cabriole legs culminating in claw-and-ball feet
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- ND
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (87x159)
Hand
probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792), architect
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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