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[33] Record drawing for a console table for the anteroom for Sir Edward Dering, 1775
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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.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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