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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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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.


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