[7] Finished drawing for a pier bookcase, probably for the book room, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Arlington Street, number 23, London: unexecuted designs for interior decoration for Sir George Colebrooke, 1771 (16)
      - Finished drawing for a pier bookcase, probably for the book room, 1771, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/219

Purpose

[7] Finished drawing for a pier bookcase, probably for the book room, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a window pier, against which is a desk and bookcase, with drawers surrounding a knee-hole in the base, surmounted by double doors ornamented with rectangular compartments containing enclosed rosettes and calyx, and surmounted by a frieze of festoons and rosettes, and crowned by winged griffons, and festoons, flanking an oval medallion, surmounted by an anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Bookcase for Sir George Colebrooke Bart. / For G Colebrooke (in pencil)

Signed and dated

1771
1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow within a single ruled border on laid paper (368 x 535)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 34
Harris, 1963, pp. 53, 74
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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