[3] Design of a chair, c1780, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Byram Hall, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire: designs for the interior of the house for Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet, c.1780 (17)
    - Preliminary design and variant designs for a chair for the hall, c.1780, executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/104

Purpose

[3] Design of a chair, c1780, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a seat and elevation of a chair with a heater shield-shaped back with an arched crest, curved stiles, a gadrooned shoe piece and the stemma of Ramsden family, and with tapered legs, including turned capitals ornamented with cable moulding, and with ball feet ornamented with gadrooning, and a seat rail ornamented with enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

c1780
datable to c1780

Medium and dimensions

Pencil and pen on laid paper (440 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, p. 307
Harris, 1963, p. 48
Spiers, 1979, p. 30, Index, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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