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[39] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/51
Purpose
[39] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame. The stiles and frieze of the chimneypiece are ornamented with L-shaped bands of enclosed rosettes within figure-of-eight ribbons, with drops below in the stiles, composed of ram masks, calyx, bows, tubular flowers, cameos, urns, and tablets, and with a central tablet in the frieze, containing an oval medallion flanked by urns. The overmantel frame has a three-sided rectangular border of anthemia, flanked by terms holding festoons, and supporting a lintel ornamented with fluting and arabesques, and surmounted by an oval patera within a wreath, supporting an eagle, and flanked by putti and urns
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Bow Dressing Room one pair Story / at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) Glass / Glass / Mr Carter has / not got this / yet the Drawing / at large having / not quite finished and measurements given in pen and pencil
Signed and dated
- 1774
1774.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow and cerulean blue within a single ruled border on laid paper (363 x 522)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Watermark
IHS IVILLEDARY
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 83
Beard, 1978, p. 64
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 55; p. 83
Beard, 1978, p. 64
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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