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  • image SM Adam volume 3/68

Reference number

SM Adam volume 3/68

Purpose

[8] Preliminary design for an overmantel for the front drawing room, 1771

Aspect

Rough elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, articulated by turned columns, ornamented with calyx, enclosed rosettes, and candle branches, with a base rail surmounted by anthemia, arabesques, and a central urn, and surmounted by a top rail with an apron of festoons and a central ram mask, and surmounted by arabesques, calyx, festoons, seated female figures, and a central oval medallion flanked by winged griffons, and anthemia

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (173 x 191)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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