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[15] Rough preliminary design for a sofa for the north wall of the library, c1768-69, executed with alterations
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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.
Harris, 1963, pp. 50, 79-80
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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