[12] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the ante room for Robert and James Adam, 1772

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Mansfield Street, London: designs for interior decoration of eight houses, built as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1772-75 (35)
      - Mansfield Street, number 15
        Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the ante room for Robert and James Adam, 1772 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/67

Purpose

[12] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the ante room for Robert and James Adam, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with plain stiles, a moulded lining, with urns in the capitals, a plain frieze, and a central tablet containing an anthemion enclosed within a wreath, and connected by festoons to flanking urns on pedestals

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Anti room in Mr. Adams House / west side of Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

17/04/1772
Adelphi / April 17t. 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

LVG surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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