[27] Finished drawing for a sofa for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Finished drawing for the great drawing room sofa, July 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/81

Purpose

[27] Finished drawing for a sofa for the great drawing room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a sofa, with fluted legs and ball feet, and a seat rail ornamented with rosettes enclosed within connected wreaths of calyx, with arms ornamented with acanthus leaves, and a shaped top rail composed of reed and ribbon

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Sopha for the Recesses in the Great Drawing Room at Lord Stanley's (underwritte in pencil)

Signed and dated

05/07/1774
Adelphi / 5t. July 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (407 x 289)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 95
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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