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  • image SM Adam volume 17/41

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/41

Purpose

[57] Record drawing for a table slab, possibly for the great drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a table slab with a part-patera enclosed within a plain band. Beyond this there is a band of rosettes and calyx, and the slab has a border of fret enclosing calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/12 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Slab for Sir Abraham Hume Bart / £15: 15: Eck / Table on statuary marble

Signed and dated

  • June 1779
    2nd June 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (304 x 236)

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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