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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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