[51] Preliminary design for a bed, c1775, possibly executed

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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/110

Purpose

[51] Preliminary design for a bed, c1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a bed with a domed canopy ornamented with lambrequins, rosette crenellations with pendent rosettes and swags suspending peltoid shields. There is a head/base? board ornamented with a medallion surmounted by an urn and figures and this is flanked by volute scrolls bearing reclining figures

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lady Homes Bed in Etruscan Room / (and in pencil) [_ _ _ _ _ _] [_ _ _ _ _] as Mr Childs(?)

Signed and dated

c1775
c1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (202 x 314)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Above – Preliminary design for a cornice. Centre – Preliminary design for a room elevation, with an apsidal end set behind a Corinthian screen. Below – Preliminary plan for a room with a colonnaded screen at one end

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Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Harris, 1963, pp. 57, 99
Whinney, 1969, pp. 44, 47, 65, 67
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 290, fig. 408
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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