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  • image SM Adam volume 24/220

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/220

Purpose

Preliminary design for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame, ND

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster styles, capitals containing roundels and a frieze ornamented with a guilloche band. The chimneypiece is surmounted by a small rectangular mirror frame, flanked by reclining draped figures. The frame is surmounted by a circular frame containing a landscape scene, with swags above. The frame is flanked by Doric pilaster styles, ornamented with fans and drop calyx. All this is surmounted by half-putto supporting an urn and this is flanked by military trophies

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

218

Signed and dated

  • ND
    ND

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including cerulean blue, sepia and Naples yellow on laid paper (157x201)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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