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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/28

Purpose

[26] Full size working drawing for a console table for the music room, 1780-81

Aspect

Full size detail of a plan of a table top, with a central fan enclosing roses and thistles, and a border of alternating cable knots, and medallions containing Tudor roses

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Top of Table for the Music room at Cumberland House and feint pencil annotations, presumably denoting colour (verso) Number 7 / Table for the Duke of Cumberland

Signed and dated

  • December 1780
    Adelphi / 15t Decr 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green and violet on laid paper (445 x 821)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, with title inscription in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, Index p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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