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[26] Rough preliminary drawing made for publication for various items of furniture, 1774
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/29
Purpose
[26] Rough preliminary drawing made for publication for various items of furniture, 1774
Aspect
Elevation showing a curtain cornice, a rectangular mirror frame ornamented with arabesques, a griffon and an oval figurative panel, two oval mirror frames, a sideboard table surmounted by urns, spoon boxes and dishes, a wine cistern, and two urns on pedestals
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Curtain Cornice in Grt room / Glass in small parler / Glass in great room / Glass in Eating room . Side board in Eating room and some dimensions given (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1774
datable to 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (204 x 297)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Tait, 1993, p. 119
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Robert Adam, The Creative Mind: from the Sketch to the Finished Drawing, Sir John Soane's Museum, 4 October 1996 - 1 March 1997; The Frick Collection, New York, December 1997 - April 1998; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, May - June 1998; The Octagon Museum, Washington, July 1998 - January 1999; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, February - March 1999
Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 17 February - 9 May 2015
Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 17 February - 9 May 2015
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