[18] Preliminary design for a scagliola table slab, possibly for the great room, c1767

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Preliminary design and design for a scagliola table slab, possibly for the great room, c1767 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/106

Purpose

[18] Preliminary design for a scagliola table slab, possibly for the great room, c1767

Aspect

Rough plan showing a detail of a rectangulartale slab, ornamented with guilloche containing rosettes, and rosettes enclosed within lozenges, and with a border of lozenges, alternating with half-rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

There are a great many inscriptions in pencil on this drawing but many of them are rubbed out and smudged so as to make them illegible. Those that are legible read: Lord Coventry / Culor (sic) of the Table in Length & Breadth / Mr Adam had not time to fix the Colours of the Border / But thinks that need not Stop the Estimate from being made / Where that is fixt of the drawing is returned to Mr Adam he will Settle the other Parts of the Colouring

Signed and dated

c1767
datable to c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (339 x 334)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Stillman, 1966, pp. 107-8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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