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  • image SM Adam volume 17/95

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/95

Purpose

[86] Design for an arm chair for the Etruscan dressing room, 1776, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Perspective as Adam volume 17/96 but with scrolled arms ornamented with bell flowers rather than winged griffons

Scale

measured

Inscribed

Chair for the Etruscan room at Osterly and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • March 1776
    Adelphi March 6t 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (271 x 405)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 95
Tomlin, 1972, p. 77
Harris, 2001, p. 179
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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