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  • image SM Adam volume 23/44

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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