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  • image SM Adam volume 17/161

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/161

Purpose

[13] Preliminary design for a bedstead, c1761-63, there is no evidence that these designs were executed

Aspect

Section of a four-poster bed as above, but to a different scale, showing arabesque ornamentation on the inside of the domed canopy. Further ornamentation is drawn feintly in pencil

Scale

13/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Bed for their Majestys

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    datable to 1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (346 x 593)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 35
Harris, 1963, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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