[24] Record drawing for a garden seat, 1780, not known to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
    - Record drawing for a garden seat, 1780, not known to have been executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 19/171

Purpose

[24] Record drawing for a garden seat, 1780, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation and plan of a garden seat, comprising a raised, single-storey aedicule articulated by Ionic pilasters. With capitals ornamented with paterae, and a frieze consisting of a rosette, ribbons and festoons, and this is surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll. Within the aedicule there is a seat with block feet, tapering legs, and a plain seat rail

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Garden Seat for Sir Abraham Hume Baronet and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

May 1780
5.th May 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (320 x 454)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

J Kool surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 226
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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