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  • image SM Adam volume 23/191

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/191

Purpose

[13] Preliminary design for the chimneypiece for the drawing room, unexecuted, November 1778

Aspect

Elevation with a figurative tablet, one medallion capital, the other elongated and containing an urn, and one stile ornamented with rams mask, drops of calyx and a peltoid shield

Scale

1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room / Mr Towers

Signed and dated

  • November 1778
    datable to November 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (325 x 238)

Hand

Robert Adam

Notes

This chimneypiece was drawn onto a larger sheet with more than one drawing on it and then cropped. We can see this as there is the 'A' of another signature and '12t' of another date.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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