[28] Working drawing for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary design and working drawings for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/63

Purpose

[28] Working drawing for a commode in the drawing room, 1773, executed with alterations

Aspect

Part plan of a lunette-shaped slab for a commode ornamented with bands of acanthus leaves, encircled by a band containing arabesques, rosettes, and an urn with ram head handles, this encircled by a wider band containing enclosed rosettes, calyx and anthemia within x-shaped arrangements, encircled by festoons and anthemia, and with a border of reed and ribbon, beading, and intertwined ribbon and vines of flowers

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Top of Commode for Robert Child Esqr

Signed and dated

January 1773
Adelphi Janry 30t. 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow, pink and terre verte on laid paper (844 x 606)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 74
Tomlin, 1972, pp. 42, 44
Harris, 2001, p. 166
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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