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[8] Design for a bookcase, 1767
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/215
Purpose
[8] Design for a bookcase, 1767
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular bookcase, with solid doors in the lower register, ornamented with cable moulding, rosettes, and calyx. The upper register is divided by a band of Vitruvian scroll, and has doors containing wire or leaded glass. There is a frieze of patera and fluting, and a tablet of festoons, bows, an enclosed rosette, and military trophies, all surmounted by a bust and two urns
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Bookcase for The Right Honourable Lord Frederick Campbell
Signed and dated
- 1767
1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, wash and coloured washes including cerulean blue on laid paper (324 x 421)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly J.P. Laurent or Giuseppe Sacco
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 7
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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