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[55] Finished design for a chair for the bedchamber, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 17/94
Purpose
[55] Finished design for a chair for the bedchamber, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Perspective of a chair, with tapering legs ornamented with triple drops of calyx, and with block feet, and a seat rail, seat, arms, and top rail ornamented with borders of calyx, and the seat has a central rosette, encircled by a fan, and the back splat has a central cameo, flanked by anthemia, enclosed wthin a vesica-shaped compartment, and above and below is an anthemion, flanked by strigils and acanthus leaves
Scale
measured
Inscribed
Design for Chair for The Right Honble Lord Stanley (underwritten in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 01/01/1775
1775 / Adelphi Janry 19t. 1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green within a single ruled pencil border on laid paper (291 x 435)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 95
Harris, 2001, p. 295
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 95
Harris, 2001, p. 295
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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