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  • image SM Adam volume 17/122

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/122

Purpose

[51] Preliminary design for a fire grate, 1765

Aspect

Elevation with tapering fluted legs, bun feet, a band of arabesques and anthemia along the rail, with a rosette at each end. Each leg and the fire basket are surmounted by vases, and there is a rough pencil-drawn design for a fire back, or possibly a fire screen

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Grate for the Earl of Coventry

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (289 x 406)

Hand

Adam office hand, with pencil-drawn annotations in the hand of Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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