[73] Design 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 17/70

Purpose

[73] Design 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 herms, a plain serpentine seat rail, and cabriole legs ornamented with scales, masks and scroll feet. The sofa is upholstered in pink with bolster cushions

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

1762
datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash on laid paper (355 x 219)

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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