[31] Design for a commode for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1779, possibly 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)
      - Unfinished design and design for a commode for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778-1779, possibly executed, (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/43

Purpose

[31] Design for a commode for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1779, possibly as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a segmental commode as Adam volume 17/35

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Commode for the second Drawing room at Apsley House

Signed and dated

June 1779
June 1779 / (Adelphi)?

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including olive green, cerulean blue, pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (449 x 335)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 76
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 12
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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