[16] Record drawing for a toilet table for Lady Colebrooke, 1771, unexecuted

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    - Arlington Street, number 23, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for Sir George Colebrooke, 1771 (16)
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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.

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Drawing

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