Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [9] Preliminary design for a chair, c1768-69

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 6/156

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/156

Purpose

[9] Preliminary design for a chair, c1768-69

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chair with tapering, fluted legs, supporting a tabula ansata-shaped seat rail, ornamented with animal masks and foliage, and with a seat back composed of a wreath enclosing an anthemion, between two turned uprights, and with a top rail surmounted by scrolls, a coat of arms and crown

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Colonel Campbells Bill / to be got Ready by Next Saturdays / Night of Chimneys and What has / Been paid to the Ironmonger / the Cornice for Parlour to be got Ready / Not to be fluted 7 1/2 Inches high

Signed and dated

  • 1768-1769
    date range: 1768-69

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (191 x 230)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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