[39] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the Etruscan dressing room, 1774, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - 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)
      - Finished drawing for the Etruscan dressing room chimneypiece and overmantel, 1774, as executed (1)

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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.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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