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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/243

Purpose

[24] Rough preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the Chinese room, c1771-72, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of an elaborate chimneypiece ornamented with landscape tiles, half figures, arabesques, swags, enclosed anthemia, stiff leaf, and a central semicircular panel of mirror

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Glass

Signed and dated

  • 1771-72
    datable to 1771-72

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on wove paper (267 x 216)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
Bryant, 1990, p. 38
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 115
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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