[25] Full size working drawing for the ornamental panels of a pianoforte case for Queen Charlotte, 1780, probably unexecuted

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    - Buckingham House (later Buckingham Palace), The Mall, London: designs for the interior, an illumination, rebuilding the palace, and a pianoforte, for King George III and Queen Charlotte, 1761-1763, and 1780 (25)
      - Full size working drawings for the ornamental panels of a pianoforte case for Queen Charlotte, 1780, probably unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/3

Purpose

[25] Full size working drawing for the ornamental panels of a pianoforte case for Queen Charlotte, 1780, probably unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a detail, showing the legs and base rail of the instruments, and a profile of a leg. The base rail is ornamented with anthemia, and the legs with acanthus leaves, anthemia, calyx and an enclosed rosette

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Design for the Queens Piano Forte (verso) 2

Signed and dated

November 1780
Adelphi / 6t Novr 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (536 x 725)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

J KOOL and fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 1963, p. 54
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 275
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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