[7] Preliminary design for a chair, c1779, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hill Street, number 31 (later 17), London, designs for a rear elevation, interiors and furniture, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1778-1780 (64)
      - Preliminary design for a chair and designs for a chair, sofas and a confident sofa, 1779-1780, as executed (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/162

Purpose

[7] Preliminary design for a chair, c1779, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chair with turned feet and turned, fluted legs, with capitals containing urns. The seat rail is ornamented by a band of enclosed anthemia and the chair arms are formed with volute scrolls ornamented with acanthus leaves. The base of the seat back is ornamented by a central patera enclosed within a wreath, and this is flanked by socles supporting winged sphinxes. The seat back has a border of fluting, is draped by festoons of husks, and is surmounted by a patera supporting a shell

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

c1779
c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (192 x 240)

Hand

Possibly
Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 97
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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