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[16] Record drawing for a toilet table for Lady Colebrooke, 1771, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/16
Purpose
[16] Record drawing for a toilet table for Lady Colebrooke, 1771, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a toilet table, with tapering legs ornamented with calyx, and draped in a cloth ornamented with lozenges, and surmounted by urns, and an oval dressing mirror, ornamented with a pedestal of enclosed anthemia, arabesques, birds, and candle branches, a frame composed of scrolled acanthus leaves, and terms holding tubular flowers and festoons, and surmounted by dolphins and a female figure, and draped in a plain cloth
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Toillet Table for Lady Colebrooke
Signed and dated
- 1771
1771.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, cerulean blue, and Indian yellow on laid paper (290 x 406)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 87
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 87
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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