[17] Design for a chimneypiece for Baron Grant's dressing room, 1771, probably as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Soho Square, number 20, London: designs for the house and interior for the Hon. Baron Grant, 1771-72 (27)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for Baron Grant's dressing room, 1771, probably as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/293

Purpose

[17] Design for a chimneypiece for Baron Grant's dressing room, 1771, probably as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with console stiles, ornamented with fluting and acanthus leaves, above masks, and further fluting, with a frieze ornamented with connected roundels enclosing anthemia and urns, and with enclosed oval rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Dressing Room for Mr. Baron Grant

Signed and dated

1771
1771.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (408 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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