[36] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1766, executed with minor alterations

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Coventry House, 29 (now 106) Piccadilly, London: designs for unexecuted alterations to the house, and for executed interior decoration, for the 6th Earl of Coventry, 1764-70 (57)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1766, executed with minor alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/70

Purpose

[36] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Coventry's octagonal dressing room, 1766, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation with volute piers surmounted by panels containing a torch and quiver of arrows crossed. There is also a band of figure-of-eight husks. The frieze is ornamented with half figures, arabesques and a central figurative oval panel, probably depicting Venus and Cupid

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney piece for Lady Coventry's Dressing room

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Stillman, 1966, p. 91
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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