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  • image SM Adam volume 17/132

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/132

Purpose

[40] Finished drawing for a grate for the eating room, 1780-85, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a grate, with fluted tapering legs, and ornamented with strigils and anthemia along the base rail, and the sides of the fire basket are ornamented with figure-of-eight ribbons enclosing anthemia, and surmounted by a lion and a unicorn

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Grate for the Eating room at Cumberland House

Signed and dated

  • 1780-1785
    date range: 1780-1785

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (312 x 384)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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