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Preliminary design for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame, ND
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/217
Purpose
Preliminary design for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame, ND
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with styles ornamented with a panel embellished with fans and drop calyx and this is flanked by scrolls, which terminate in acanthus leaves. The frieze is ornamented with swags and the chimneypiece is surmounted by a tripartite mirror frame with paired, tapering pilaster styles. The frame is surmounted by a truncated pyramidal monument, with a base ornamented with a figurative roundel, flanked by griffins and set within a semi-circular band of enclosed anthemia, with rosette roundels above. The base is flanked by figures and the truncated pyramid is ornamented with a central figurative oval tablet, which is flanked by swags and draped figures
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
215
Signed and dated
- ND
ND
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (264x248)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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