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[16] Alternative preliminary designs for chairs for the Etruscan / octagonal dressing room, c1778, possibly executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 6/163
Purpose
[16] Alternative preliminary designs for chairs for the Etruscan / octagonal dressing room, c1778, possibly executed
Aspect
To the left - Elevation of a chair with tapering legs and ball feet. The seat rail is ornamented with a band of enclosed anthemia and the seat back with rosettes and further anthemia. The top rail contains a central medallion
To the right - Elevation of a chair with straight, fluted legs and block feet. The seat rail is ornamented with a band of enclosed rosettes(?), and the seat back with a band of lozenges, anthemia, lozenges enclosing paterae, foil enclosing rosettes and drop calyx
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Lady Bathurst’s Etruscan Room
Signed and dated
- c1778
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (181 x 135)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, p. 57
Lea, 2005, p.12
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p. 57
Lea, 2005, p.12
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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