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[7] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/44
Purpose
[7] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of bell flowers, flanking a rectangular compartment within a frame of laurel leaf tips, and surmounted by a ram mask, supporting an urn, with a fluted frieze, and with a tablet containing an enclosed mask, flanked by anthemia and enclsoed rosettes, set within figure-of-eight bell flowers
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Front Drawing Room. (underwritten in pencil) / for Lord Stanley in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) The Ground of S[ _ cropped] / the Tablet [cropped ]
Signed and dated
- 1773
1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (374 x 259)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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