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  • image SM Adam volume 24/182 verso

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/182 verso

Purpose

[30] Preliminary design for a chimney board for Lord Mansfield's dressing room, c1779

Aspect

Rough elevation of a square chimney board, with a central circular compartment enclosed by a wreath, and containing a figurative medallion, supported by a pedestal ornamented with ram masks, and surmounted by an urn containing flowers, and flanked by festoons and drops

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

for drawing room at Kenwood and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • c1779
    datable to c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (231 x 206)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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