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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/200

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the eating room of an unknown house, ND; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with acanthus leaves, and a vesica-shaped compartment ornamented with foliage, and with a mask and crossed thyrsi surmounted by an urn flanked by miniature fluted pilasters in the capitals, and with a frieze ornamented with a band of segmental compartments, and a tablet containing an urn (verso) rough pencil design for an interior wall

Scale

to a rough scale

Signed and dated

  • 1758-94
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (307 x 231)

Hand

Robert Adam

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur de lis within crowed cartouche

Level

Drawing

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

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