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Designs for a chimneypiece for the drawing room (now the library), as executed, 1759 (2)

Notes

Hussey notes that this design reflects Piranesi's early influence on Adam with its use of conspicuously Roman motifs. The executed chimneypiece remains in situ in the library, on the south-east corner of the ground floor.

The pencil inscription in Robert Adam's hand on drawing 8 suggests that the use of this room was changed from being a drawing room to a library during the process of decoration.

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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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