[36] Working drawing for a chair back possibly for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, possibly 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)
      - Working drawing for a chair back, possibly for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778. possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/99

Purpose

[36] Working drawing for a chair back possibly for the great drawing room (now the portico room), 1778, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of ornamentation for an oval chair back, with a central patera enclosed within wreaths of husks and flora. The patera has an apron of beading which suspends rosettes. All of this is enclosed within a further wreath of tubular flowers, calyx and husks To the left - Elevation of ornamentation for a chair arm, with a central paetra, calyx and flora

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Back of Chair for Lady Bathurst

Signed and dated

April 1778
Adelphi / April 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, olive green and verdigris on laid paper (439 x 514)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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