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Drawing, Design for a Confidante, an Etruscan Arm Chair, and a Silver Cup
This is a Drawing. It was style of Robert Adam. It is dated ca. 1920–35 and we acquired it in 1946. Its medium is black chalk, brush and white gouache on oatmeal-colored laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann.
Its dimensions are
Frame: 41 x 51.1 x 3.2 cm (16 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.) Overall: 23.1 x 26.9cm (9 1/8 x 10 9/16in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
It is signed
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It is inscribed
In pen and brown ink at right of confidante: Covered in / Satin; [below] Design for a Confidante for Sir Abrm Hume/ Adelphi Oct 1777/ Robt Adam
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Confidante, an Etruscan Arm Chair, and a Silver Cup; Style of Robert Adam (British, 1728–1792); England; black chalk, brush and white gouache on oatmeal-colored laid paper; Frame: 41 x 51.1 x 3.2 cm (16 1/8 x 20 1/8 x 1 1/4 in.) Overall: 23.1 x 26.9cm (9 1/8 x 10 9/16in.) Mat: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Jacques Seligmann; 1946-14-1
