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SM Adam volume 49/31

Purpose

[44] Working drawing for a painted chimneypiece for Lady Mansfield's sitting-cum-dressing room, unexecuted, 1783

Aspect

Full size elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece stile composed of a pedestal ornamented with ram masks, and surmounted by a painted urn ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll and holding flowers, and the pedestal and urn are flanked by pilasters ornamented with tubular flowers in the shafts

Scale

full size

Inscribed

Lord Mansfield painted Chimney (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 1

Signed and dated

  • 1783
    datable to 1783

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including olive green, Prussian blue and pink on laid paper (415 x 641)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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