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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a table with part of a Vitruvian scroll, showing three tapering legs with spiral decoration. Below on the sheet is part of plan showing the stretchers to the legs.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/83
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design for a table with part of a Vitruvian scroll, showing three tapering legs with spiral decoration. Below on the sheet is part of plan showing the stretchers to the legs.
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Details
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil in a contemporary hand with dimensions
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on grey washed paper
126 x 185
Hand
James Adam, Office of
Notes
The table was probably intended for James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63; there is a larger detail of table legs in Adam vol.7/97 verso, which is probably in the same hand as this drawing.
Level
Drawing
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