[54] Preliminary design for a chair for the bedchamber, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for the bedchamber chair, January 1775; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/154

Purpose

[54] Preliminary design for a chair for the bedchamber, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of an armchair, with variant tapering legs, one being ornamented with drops with a ball foot, and the other being fluted with a block foot, and with enclosed rosettes above each leg, and foliage in the seat rail, the arms, seat and back are all bordered in beading, and the arms and splat are infilled with scrolls, and the splat has a central cameo, and the seat is ornamented with a roundel enclosed within a fan (verso) plan of a seat

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Stanleys Bed Chamber

Signed and dated

January 1775
datable to January 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (184 x 215)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 95
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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