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[34] Record drawing for a console table for Lady Dering's dressing room for Sir Edward Dering, 1775
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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.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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