[8] Preliminary design for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
      - Designs for the interior decoration, including the great dining room, music room, eating room, drawing rooms and boudoir (59)
        Preliminary designs, a finished drawing, and working drawings for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/185

Purpose

[8] Preliminary design for the chimneypiece in the great dining room in an Etruscan style, presumed to have been executed, 1780

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimneypiece, with alternative drops of arabesques, anthemia, peltoid shields, urns, and tablets in the stiles, between Ionic pilasters ornamented with drops of calyx, and with a frieze of guilloche enclosing rosettes, and fluting enclosing flowers, with a figurative tablet, and one capital containing a circular medallion, and the other an oval medallion

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cumberland House - G. Dining Room / see [ _ _ ] details p. 252-253 & see 148 (in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton)

Signed and dated

1780
datable to 1780

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (333 x 245)

Hand

Robert Adam. Title inscription in the hands of Robert Adam and A.T. Bolton

Literature

Stillman, 1966, pp. 78, 95
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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