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  • image SM Adam volume 17/29

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/29

Purpose

[33] Record drawing for a console table for the anteroom for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a segmental console table, with four tapering legs, ornamented with drops of calyx, and ball feet, and with a stretcher ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, and a table rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes above the legs, fluting and laurel leaf tips, and the slab is ornamented with a segmental rosette, encircled by a fan of calyx enclosing rosettes, and frames of olive leaves, and Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Table frame and Slab for the Antiroom at Sir Edd. Derings / in Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

  • 25/08/1775
    Adelphi / 25t. Aug. 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and verdigris wash on laid paper (290 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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