Alternative preliminary designs and designs for the first and second drawing room table slabs, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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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)

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Alternative preliminary designs and designs for the first and second drawing room table slabs, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (2)

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As the house was demolished in 1862, and the first and second drawing room tables and table slabs were not illustated in The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam, it is not known if these features were executed in accordance with Adam's extant design.

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