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[16] Design for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/45
Purpose
[16] Design for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with fluting, lion masks, and scrolled hearts, and with a frieze ornamented with scrolled hearts, and alternating oval medallions and urns on pedestals, connected by festoons, and with winged sphinxes in the capitals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Second Drawing Room. / for Lord Stanley in Grosvenor Square and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1773
1773.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 281)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, p. 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, p. 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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