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  • image SM Adam volume 23/234

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/234

Purpose

[27] Rough preliminary design for a chimneypiece for Lord Mansfield's dressing room, 1779, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation with tapering stiles surmounted by enclosed rosettes, and a tablet containing a vase, swags, husks, bows and rosettes

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Kenwood / [illegible feint word] Library [illegible feint word] my Lord Room and some dimensions given (all in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (245 x 217)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
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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