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[23] Design for a clothes press for Lady Coventry's bedroom, 1764, executed and then altered
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/212
Purpose
[23] Design for a clothes press for Lady Coventry's bedroom, 1764, executed and then altered
Aspect
Elevation of a tripartite clothes press divided by four tapered terms ornamented with garlands in the lower portion. The basement level panels are ornamented with panels of strigillation. The doors of the clothes press are ornamented with panels of griffons, arabesques and vases. There is a frieze of anthemia and an attic section ornamented with rosettes and a fret motif. The press is surmounted by a vase above each term
Scale
bar scale of 4/5 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cloaths Press for The Earl of Coventry
Signed and dated
- October 1764
2d Oct 1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow and sepia on laid paper (291 x 312)
Hand
Differing Adam office hands, possibly Robert Adam or George Richardson
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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