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  • image SM Adam volume 23/241

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/241

Purpose

[1] Design for a chimneypiece, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster styles ornamented with scrolls, which are embellished with masks and bands of drop calyx and the scrolls terminate in acanthus leaves. Set in between the scrolls there is a T-shaped panel ornamented with pedestals supporting urns and turned balusters, which support anthemia, tablets, further urns and arabesques. The frieze is ornamented with a band of fluting and a band of rosettes alternating with ram masks, which suspend festoons of husks. The frieze terminates in tablets containing draped, winged figures and above this there is a band of strigilation and paterae

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

241 / No. 6 (pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (397x295)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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