[41] Preliminary design for a long stool for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Osterley Park, Hounslow, Greater London: designs for the house, interior and park for Francis Child and Robert Child, 1761-80 (126)
    - Interior decoration
      - Preliminary design for a long stool for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/1/66

Purpose

[41] Preliminary design for a long stool for the hall, c1767-79, executed with alterations

Aspect

Rough elevation of a stool, with scrolled arms, and legs, with paw feet, ornamented with acanthus leaves, and the seat rail is ornamented with connected enclosed rosettes, and an apron of arabesques, and with a larger-scale rough detail of the seat rail below

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1767-1779
date range: 1767-79

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (231 x 190)

Hand

Robert Adam

Verso

Rough pencil-drawn ram, with a scrolling tail, and a unicorn's horn

Literature

Tomlin, 1972, p. 16
Harris, 2001, pp. 168-169
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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