[15] Rough preliminary design for a sofa for the north wall of the library, c1768-69, executed with alterations

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  - Kenwood, Hampstead, London: designs for the house and park for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1764-83 (55)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/151

Purpose

[15] Rough preliminary design for a sofa for the north wall of the library, c1768-69, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of an eight-leg sofa with ball feet, scroll arms, a seat rail ornamented with anthemia, and a back ornamented with swags and a central anthemion. The sofa is placed between two piers and in front of a mirror frame ornamented with urns, calyx, a figurative roundel and arabesques

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Mansfields Sofa

Signed and dated

1768-69
datable to 1768-69

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (302 x 445)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Harris, 1963, pp. 50, 79-80
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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