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  • image SM Adam volume 17/163

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/163

Purpose

[98] Unfinished record drawing for a four-poster bed for the yellow taffeta bedchamber, 1779, as executed

Aspect

Part elevation of a four-poster bed, with turned posts on ball feet, ornamented with fluting and vines, with a tester, and canopy ornamented with swags, tassels, enclosed laurel leaves, anthemia, crockets, paterae within festoons, putti, and an urn within a wreath

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of Bed for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

  • April 1779
    10t April 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including lemon yellow on laid paper (296 x 449)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Tomlin, 1972, p. 90
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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