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  • image SM Adam volume 24/160

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/160

Purpose

Preliminary design for a chimney grate, ND

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimney grate, with a pedestal ornamented with a palmette flanked by scrolling foliage. This supports fluted legs, an apron of enclosed palmettes, a base rail of guilloche, and a box-shaped fire basket with a circular grated opening, surmounted by palmettes and strigils. There is pencil underdrawing showing a wider arrangment, with the legs surmounted by miniature urns. To the right-hand side, there are alterative legs composed of acanthus leaves flanking a base rail with an apron of swags(?)

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Scale 1/10_ to 1 foot / 8 Inches deep

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (148x153)

Hand

Probably Adam, Robert (1728--1792) - Collections

Level

Drawing

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