[60] Design for a table slab, 1779

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Either Wormleybury or Hill Street (5)
        Design, record drawing and working drawing for a table slab, 1779 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/37

Purpose

[60] Design for a table slab, 1779

Aspect

Plan of a table slab, with a part-patera enclosed within a fan, with an ox skull, ribbons and festoons beyond. There is a central tablet, depicting a draped figure and winged putti, which is ornamented with ram masks, and flanked by roundels depicting putti. All this is linked with festoons of beading, which suspend lozenges and cameos. The tablet has an apron consisting of arabesques, a mask, and a rosette surrounded by thyrsi and enclosed within a wreath. The slab is bordered with a plain band flanked by further bands of beading

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Slab for Sir Abraham Hume Baronet / £35. - / Adelphi / 21st May 1779 / £35 Statuary marble Table [_ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _] be of a figure with E[_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _]

Signed and dated

May 1779
21st May 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (452 x 311)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
Harris, 1963, p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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