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[98] Unfinished record drawing for a four-poster bed for the yellow taffeta bedchamber, 1779, as executed
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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.
Tomlin, 1972, p. 90
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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