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[88] Preliminary design for a chimney board for the Etruscan room, 1777
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/221
Purpose
[88] Preliminary design for a chimney board for the Etruscan room, 1777
Aspect
Elevation of a rectangular chimney board, ornamented with tripods, urns, medallions, cameos, peltoid shields, festoons, putti, anthemia, sphinxes, tubular flowers, enclosed rosettes, and a figurative tablet showing an ox being led to sacrifice, with alternative arrangements of the ornamentation to the left- and right-hand sides
Scale
bar scale of 2 3/5 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Board for Mrs Child at Osterly / for the Etruscan Room and some dimensions given (all in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1777
datable to 1777
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (279 x 424)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
Stillman, 1966, pp. 59-60
Tomlin, 1972, p. 79
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Tomlin, 1972, p. 79
Harris, 2001, p. 352
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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