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[42] Unfinished design for a segmental table for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1779, possibly executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/47
Purpose
[42] Unfinished design for a segmental table for Lady Bathurst’s dressing room / third drawing room, 1779, possibly executed
Aspect
Part plan of a segmental table top ornamented with a patera enclosed within a fan. Beyond this there is a central figurative tablet, surmounted by an urn and with an apron of ribbons, festoons and a mask. This is flanked by ribbons and festoons with pendent roundels. The slab is bordered by a band flanked by further bands of beading
Elevation of a table frame with Ionic, tapering legs. The capitals contain paterae and there is a frieze ornamented with paterae, anthemia and figrative medallions, and this has an apron of festoons
Scale
bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Table frame & top for Lady Bathurst’s Dressing room
Signed and dated
- June 1779
19th June 1779
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, cerulean and Indian yellow on laid paper (274 x 376)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison
Verso
Preliminary design for a table elevation comparable to SM Adam 17/47, (pen and pencil)
Watermark
JWHATMAN
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, p.57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, p.57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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