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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/112

Purpose

[59] Preliminary design for the state bed, 1775

Aspect

Rough elevation of a four-poster bed, with a lambrequin tester, a base rail with Vitruvian scroll, Spalatro column posts, a headboard top rail of volutes, with a central anthemion, surmounted by a basket of foliage, and a domed canopy, surmounted by an urn

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Some measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    datable to 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (204 x 235)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 51
Harris, 2001, p. 352
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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