[17] Finished drawing for a table frame for the great room, 1767, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Finished drawing for a table frame for the great room, 1767, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/10

Purpose

[17] Finished drawing for a table frame for the great room, 1767, as executed

Aspect

Elevation with four fluted legs surmounted by panels of vertebrate banding and rosettes. The table rail is ornamented with a band of moulding and swags hanging from the rail. The table is further ornamented by three vases on top of the stretcher

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Table frame for The Earl of Coventry

Signed and dated

August 1767
August 1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow and sepia on laid paper (291 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 67
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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