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Preliminary design for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame, ND
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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
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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