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  • image SM Adam volume 24/198

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/198

Purpose

Preliminary design for a chimney grate, ND

Aspect

Faint rough elevation of a chimney grate. The principal legs are tapering to ball feet, supporting a base rail ornamented with enclosed palmettes, rosettes(?) and swags. Above are fluted piers surmounted by miniature urs and supporting the turned grate arms of the fire basket. The back of the grate has a segmental top and is ornamented with calyx, palmettes, swags, a figurative medallion and a palmette finial. The whole composition is flanked by projecting ornamental wings which continue the base rail, supported by sphinxes, and surmounted by miniature urns and human figures

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • ND

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (274x284)

Hand

Adam, Robert (1728--1792) - Collections

Level

Drawing

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