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