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  • image SM Adam volume 6/91

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/91

Purpose

Preliminary design for a tablet for a chimneypiece for an eating room, 1775

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece tablet depicting an urn ornamented with bands of gadrooning, a band of rosettes set between bands of beading and a central figurative panel flanked by festoons of husks. The lid of the urn is ornamented with further gadrooning and a central patera and it is flanked by winged sphinxes which suspend drops of husks, roundels ornamented with rosettes and drop calyx

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Tablet for an Eating room Chimney with / a Bas Relief of Bacchanalian Boys (in the hand of Robert Adam)

Signed and dated

  • January 1775
    21st Janry 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (145x145)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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