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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/152

Purpose

[6] Preliminary design for a sofa, 1763-66, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a sofa, with four tapering, fluted legs, with ball feet, and a seat rail ornamented with acanthus leaves and fluting, and with scrolled arms, and a top rail composed of two scrolls which meet at a central anthemia
  • image SM Adam volume 6/152

Scale

to a scale

Signed and dated

  • 1763-1766
    date range: 1763-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (473 x 252)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 51
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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