[7] Design for a table for the gallery, 1765, as executed

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    - Arlington Street, number 19, London: unexecuted designs for an extension, and executed designs for interior decoration, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66, (11)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/5

Purpose

[7] Design for a table for the gallery, 1765, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a tripod table with paw feet, a pedestal ornamented with enclosed rosettes, a stretcher ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, and acanthus leaves, legs ornamented with cusped coin moulding enclosing anthemia, ram masks, and a table rail ornamented with fluting, Vitruvian scroll, and an apron of rosettes and festoons, and with a pencil-drawn lunette-shaped plan of the table top on the right-hand side

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Table frame for Sir Lawrence Dundas Baronet / L Dundas (in pencil) / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) Arlington Street / "To Design of a table frame / for Long room near the eating / Parlour" / RA Accts

Signed and dated

1765
1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (419 x 280)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 65
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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