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  • image SM Adam volume 17/104

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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