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  • image SM Adam volume 54/7/70

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

Level

Drawing

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