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Reference number

SM Adam volume 54/6/15

Purpose

[70] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1760

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimneypiece with caryatid stiles holding a swag across the tablet which contains a figurative oval panel, surmounted by a broken-top pediment supporting a small figurative sculpture surmounted by a clock, and with the clock overdrawn in pencil to a different design

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1760
    1760

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (259 x 348)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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

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