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  • image SM Adam volume 24/218

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/218

Purpose

Preliminary design for a stove, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a stove, with a strigilated grate ornamented with lion masks; the grate is surmounted by a shaft composed of a tapering pedestal containing a cameo, a moulded and gadrooned base, a fluted shaft with a tablet containing festoons, and surmounted by a flaming urn ornamented by enclosed rosettes; and the grate is flanked by pedestals ornamented with drops of calyx, and surmounted gadrooned flaming urns

Scale

to a rough scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (136x227)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Spiers, 1979, p. 44

Level

Drawing

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