[13] Design for a bed, 1772; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Curzon Street, number 30, Westminster: designs for interior decoration, furniture and plate for the Hon. Henry Frederick Thynne, 1771-73 (18)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/153

Purpose

[13] Design for a bed, 1772; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a four-poster bed, with fluted tapering legs, and block feet, connected by a fluted bed rail, and supported by turned fluted posts, ornamented with acanthus leaf capitals, and supporting a top rail ornamented with anthemia, volutes, acanthus leaves, and rosettes, flanking an urn on a pedestal, ornamented with an enclosed rosette and accompanied by hangings ornamented with drops of calyx, and with a domed canopy surmounted by a gadrooned finial

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Bed for The Rt. Honble Hen. Fred. Thynne

Signed and dated

1772
1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (293 x 435)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Harris, 1963, Index p. 54; p. 98
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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