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[14] Preliminary design for an overmantel for the back drawing room, 1771, unexecuted
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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
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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