[15] Finished drawing for an overmantel for the back drawing room, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
      - Alternative preliminary design and finished drawings for an overmantel for the back drawing room, 1770-71, unexecuted (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 20/41

Purpose

[15] Finished drawing for an overmantel for the back drawing room, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of an overmantel mirror frame as Adam volume 6/103, but with the terms ornamented with drops of calyx, and with no winged griffons on the top rail

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Glass in back Drawing room at Robert Child Esqrs in Berkly Square

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (376 x 569)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

B&CBLAUW

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 1963, pp. 54, 103
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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