[6] Finished drawing for a sofa for the saloon, 1764, as executed

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    - Arlington Street, number 19, London: unexecuted designs for an extension, and executed designs for interior decoration, for Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1763-66, (11)
      - Finished drawing for a sofa for the saloon, 1764, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/74

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a sofa for the saloon, 1764, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a sofa with four sabre legs with paw feet, a serpentine seat rail, and scrolled arms, all ornamented with arabesques, rosettes, wreaths, anthemia, and winged half griffons, and with a top rail composed of two volutes, ornamented with rosettes and acanthus leaves, and with a central anthemion. The sofa is upholstered in pink and has two bolster cushions

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Sopha for Sir Laurence Dundass Baronet

Signed and dated

1764
Robt Adam Architect 1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow and pink on laid paper (636 x 364)

Hand

Adam office hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 91
Beard, 1978, p. 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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

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