[52] Preliminary design for a bed for the bedchamber, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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)
      - Preliminary design and finished drawing for the bedchamber bed, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/155

Purpose

[52] Preliminary design for a bed for the bedchamber, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of canopied twin beds, within an arched and draped recess. The beds have block feet, and a base rail ornamented with enclosed anthemia, from which hangs a tester of lambrequins enclosing arabesques and anthemia, and the posts are ornamented with leaves. The back board is ornamented with enclosed anthemia, and festoons enclosing arabesques, enclosed rosettes, anthemia, and bands of enclosed anthemia with aprons composed of masks supporting tazzas and flanked by swags. The canopy is dome-shaped, with an apron of drapery, and ornamented with anthemia, double calyx, Vitruvian scroll, a band of arabesques, rosettes, fans, calyx, and winged griffons supported by tubular flowrs, surmounted by a band of arabesques, and a pinecone finial

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Bed for Lord Stanley in Grosvenor Square

Signed and dated

1774
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Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (468 x 453)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 98
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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