[21] Preliminary design for door furniture, 1778, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Preliminary design and design for door furniture, 1778, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/185

Purpose

[21] Preliminary design for door furniture, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of door furniture consisting of a rosette enclosed within a wreath with an apron of beading forming festoons and a wreath enclosing a satyr mask. Below this there is a ribbon suspending a tubular flower, and all this is flanked by swags (in pencil)

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lock furniture for the folding doors at Apsley House

Signed and dated

June 1778
Adelphi / 1st June 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (234 x 193)

Hand

Possibly
Robert Adam

Verso

Pencil drawing, figure in profile

Literature

Lea, 2005, p.12
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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