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Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/103

Purpose

[14] Preliminary design for an overmantel for the back drawing room, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a tripartite mirror frame, with urns along the base rail, and articulated by terms, holding festoons, and the terms are surmounted by two panels of Vitruvian scroll, winged sphinxes, and turned pedestals supporting an upper rail, which has an apron of anthemia, festoons, a medallion, and a peltoid shield, and surmounted by anthemia, urns, winged griffons, and seated female figures flanking an urn
  • image SM Adam volume 6/103

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (320 x 302)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Harris, 1963, p. 54
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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