[61] Record drawing for a table slab, 1779

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - 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 17/38

Purpose

[61] Record drawing for a table slab, 1779

Aspect

Plan of a table slab as Adam volume 17/37, but with an alternative central tablet ornamented with a cameo flanked by swags, and in the place of roundels with festoons of beading there are pendent oil lamps

Scale

bar scale of 1½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Slab for Sir Abraham Hume Bart. / £26:5:0 Eck Table on statuary marble / 23rd May 1779

Signed and dated

May 1779
23rd May 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including verdigris, pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (305 x 221)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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