Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[85] Design for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776
Browse
Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/96
Purpose
[85] Design for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776
Aspect
Perspective of a chair with square, tapered legs and block feet, ornamented with lion masks, rosettes, and bell flowers, a seat rail, and back ornamented with rosettes and bell flowers, arms in the form of winged griffons, a seat with a central rosette enclosed within a fan, and with a border of rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbon, and with an urn-shaped back splat, ornamented with fluting, gadrooning, a cameo, ram masks, fret, acanthus leaves, arabesques, anthemia, a small rectangular tablet containing a lion, and an enclosed rosette
Scale
measured
Inscribed
A Design of a Chair for the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley
Signed and dated
- January 1776
Adelphi Janry 25t 1776
Medium and dimensions
Pen, wash and sepia wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (356 x 500)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 95
Tomlin, 1972, p. 77
Harris, 2001, pp. 178-179
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 95
Tomlin, 1972, p. 77
Harris, 2001, pp. 178-179
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Piranesi as Designer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 14 September 2007 - 27 January 2008; Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 9 February - 12 May 2008
Piranesi as Designer, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 14 September 2007 - 27 January 2008; Teylers Museum, Haarlem, 9 February - 12 May 2008
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk