[74] Alternative finished drawing for a sofa, for the drawing room, 1762, executed with alterations and delivered in 1765

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire: designs for landscape architecture, alterations to the house, and interior design for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet (created Lord Scarsdale 1761), 1759-72 (149)
    - Designs for the interior decoration and furniture including the hall, saloon, drawing room, dining room, music room, library, ante room, breakfasting parlour, staircase, state bed room, and principal dressing rooms
      - Design and alternative finished drawing for a sofa, and finished drawing for a chair, for the drawing room, 1762, sofa executed with alterations and delivered in 1762 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/69

Purpose

[74] Alternative finished drawing for a sofa, for the drawing room, 1762, executed with alterations and delivered in 1765

Aspect

Elevation of a sofa with a voluted top rail with a central medallion, and with scrolled arms ornamented with terms, a seat rail ornamented with strigillated fluting, and sabre legs ornamented with scales, masks and claw feet. The sofa is upholstered in green and with bolster cushions

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Sofa for Lord Scarsdale, & also executed for Mrs Montagu of Hill Street

Signed and dated

1762
R Adam Archt 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including verdigris within a single ruled border on laid paper (458 x 276)

Hand

John Linnell

Literature

Downes, 1930, p. 23
Hardy and Hayward, 1978, p. 265
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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