[36] Record drawing for a grate for the great drawing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Record drawing for the great drawing room grate, January 1775; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/128

Purpose

[36] Record drawing for a grate for the great drawing room, 1775; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a grate, with tapering legs, ornamented with fluting, ram masks, and festoons, supporting a base rail ornamented with enclosed anthemia, surmounted by paired Doric columns supporting urns, and a back plate ornamented with fans and enclosed rosettes, and the grate is within a chimneypiece lining ornamented with anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons

Scale

bar scale of 2 3/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Grate for the Great Drawing room at Lord Stanley' in Grosenor Square

Signed and dated

23/01/1775
Adelphi Janry [cropped] / Adelphi / 23d. Janry 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (442 x 334)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

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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