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[7] Design for a table, 1765
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/6
Purpose
[7] Design for a table, 1765
Aspect
Elevation and profile of a table, with square, fluted, Composite legs, ornamented with festoons, acanthus leaves, and ball feet, with a stretcher ornamented with cable moulding, and a table rail ornamented with Vitruvian scrolls, rosettes in the capitals, and an apron of rosettes and festoons, and with a pencil-drawn part plan of the legs and stretcher on the left-hand side
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design of a Table frame for the two / Porphyry Tables / End of the Table frame / Sir Charles Farnaby tables (in pencil) / Sir Charles Farnaby (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1765
R Adam Archt 1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (375 x 268)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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