Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  Design for a chimneypiece, 1774
  • image SM Adam volume 24/55
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/55

Purpose

Design for a chimneypiece, 1774

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece and grate. The grate is articulated by tapering, fluted legs, with capitals of rosette roundels and a frieze of Vitruvian scroll, which encloses anthemia. The grate is bordered by a further band of enclosed anthemia, The chimney lining is ornamented with paterae, surmounted by rosettes, bands of fluting and a band of anthemia enclosed within heart-shaped scrolls and flanked by bands of drop calyx. The chimney styles form scrolls, which are ornamented with ram masks and terminate in acanthus leaves. Below this there are drops of foliage. The capitals contain paterae surrounded by calyx and the frieze is ornamented with a band of rosettes set within wreaths. Above this there is a band of dentils

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

55

Signed and dated

  • 1774
    1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (291x370)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

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.


Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).