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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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