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  • image SM Adam volume 24/217

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

Level

Drawing

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