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[7] Design for a table for the gallery, 1765, as executed
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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