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  • image SM Adam volume 17/214

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/214

Purpose

[11] Unfinished design for a china cupboard for Lady Dundas's dressing room, 1766

Aspect

Elevation of cupboard with double doors containing glass panes, with console stiles ornamented with guilloche, a frieze of figure-of-eight calyx enclosing rosettes, and surmounted by two urns

Scale

1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

China Cupboard for Lady Dundas's Dressing Room in Arlington Street and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (273 x 404)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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

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