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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.

Level

Drawing

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