[11] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the back parlour of an unknown house, c1772-86, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Cromarty Parish Church, Ross and Cromarty, Highlands: designs for a church and a house for George Ross, unexecuted, 1772-81 (11)
    - Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the back parlour of an unknown house, c1772-86, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/188

Purpose

[11] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the back parlour of an unknown house, c1772-86, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece, with tapering pilaster stiles ornamented with drops, calyx, an ox skull, anthemia, and ram masks; with a lining ornamented with enclosed rosettes, oval medallions in the capitals, and a frieze of figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing rosettes (verso) rough pencil-drawn wall elevation

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mr Ross’s Back Parlor

Signed and dated

1772-86
date range: 1772-86

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (258 x 197)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by crown within roundel

Literature

For a full list of literature reference see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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