Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [17] Design for an overmantel frame for the great room, c1763, as executed

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 3/74

Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/74

Purpose

[17] Design for an overmantel frame for the great room, c1763, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a square frame with a volute top and central anthemion, the frame ornamented with fluting and arabesques, an apron of festoons, and on the left-hand side is a volute supporting a female head

Scale

1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Pannell over the Chimneys in the Great Room / at Bowood / Scale an Inch to a foot

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    datable to c1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (238 x 276)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk