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  • image SM Adam volume 25/210

Reference number

SM Adam volume 25/210

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a detail of a commode, with a central medallion, enclosed within an octagonal fluted frame, with an anthemion supported by arabesques on four sides, and flanked by turned pedestals supporting cameos and anthemia, and this is surmounted by a frieze of arabesques, with a central tablet containing a cameo flanked by winged griffons

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Part of Commode for Robert Child Esqr.

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (533 x 674)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 74
Tomlin, 1972, pp. 42-44
Harris, 2001, p. 166 Tomlin, 1972, p. 44
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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