Explore Collections

You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[8] Preliminary design or rough working drawing for a table, possibly for the little drawing room, c1765-85
Browse
- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 52/111
Purpose
[8] Preliminary design or rough working drawing for a table, possibly for the little drawing room, c1765-85
Aspect
Part plan and part elevation of a table, with a tapered, fluted leg, with a gadrooned ball foot, and a turned capital, ornamented with rosettes, unlobed acanthus leaves, and gadrooning, with a table rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes, calyx, anthemia, and urns, and an additional band of beading, rosettes, and foliage, and the table top is ornamented with a band of beading and anthemia, and lozenges of calyx accompanied by wreaths, and enclosing rosettes, and drops of calyx
Scale
to a rough scale
Inscribed
Sir John G. Griffin
Signed and dated
- 1765-85
date range: 1765-85
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (509 x 625)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
Harris, 1963, Index p. 48
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 48
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk