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  • image SM Adam volume 17/125a

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/125a

Purpose

Design for a chimney grate, 1773

Aspect

Elevation of a grate, with turned, fluted legs, and pedestals on block feet, ornamented with arabesques and enclosed rosettes, supporting a band of enclosed anthemia, with ram masks, surmounted by urns, arabesques, fluted uprights, turned andirons, paired dolphins wound around tridents, and an arched fire back ornametned with a rosette, fluting, and a fan enclosing drops of calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (343x541)

Hand

Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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