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  • image SM Adam volume 5/20

Reference number

SM Adam volume 5/20

Purpose

[25] Working drawing for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a side panel composed of an oval compartment, within bands of beading, and guilloche, with calyx apron, and surmounted by an enclosed rosette flanked by bows and festoons, supporting drops of calyx, bows, cameos, and urns, and the whole is surmounted by a band containing an urn, rosettes, and arabesques of acanthus

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Part of a Commode for Robt Child Esqr (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (414 x 676)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 75
Tomlin, 1972, 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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