[22] 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 25/58

Purpose

[22] Design for door furniture, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 6/185 without flanking swags. On the left-hand side there is a preliminary plan for a door knob. On the right-hand side there is a further faint preliminary plan of a door knob and a preliminary design of a chain of husks

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Furniture for the Folding doors at Apsley House

Signed and dated

June 1778
Adelphi / June 1st 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (306 x 242)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Lea, 2005, p. 12
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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