[4] Design for a stove, 1776, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
      - Designs for a stove and for ornamental medallions, c1776, possibly executed (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/129

Purpose

[4] Design for a stove, 1776, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a stove with a circular grate with turned bars. The base is ornamented with peltoid shields and rosettes and is flanked by volute scroll legs. This is surmounted by lions flanking an obelisk ornamented with a relief pedestal bearing a cameo surmounted by an urn, half-putti and a tubular flower. All this is surmounted by an oil lamp ornamented with gadrooning, ram masks and a fluted scalloped lid

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Stove for Lady Home's Hall in Portman Square

Signed and dated

March 1776
Adelphi 25t March / 1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (290 x 435)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 11, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 29, 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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