Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [34] Record drawing for a console table for Lady Dering's dressing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 17/31

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/31

Purpose

[34] Record drawing for a console table for Lady Dering's dressing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775

Aspect

Plan and elevation of a segmental console table, with four tapering legs, ornamented with drops of calyx, and with tapering feet, and a stretcher of Vitruvian scroll, and the legs support a table rail ornamented with enclosed paterae above the legs, and tablets containing rosettes and festoons, and the slab is ornamented with a segmental rosette, encircled by laurel leaves, a frame with crockets, festoons supporting cameos, and a band of miniature rosettes enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Table frame & top for Lady Dering's Dressing room

Signed and dated

  • 26/08/1775
    Adelphi / 26t. Aug. 1775.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and verdigris on laid paper (290 x 404)

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

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

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).