[11] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room for Robert and James Adam, 1772

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    - 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 front drawing room for Robert and James Adam, 1772 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/68

Purpose

[11] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room for Robert and James Adam, 1772

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with fluted Ionic pilaster stiles, a lining ornamented with laurel leaf tips, with urns in the capitals, and a frieze of calyx, anthemia, and foliage scrolls, with a central tablet containing a mask enclosed within a patera, crossed by a bow and quiver of arrows, and connected by swags to flanking tripod urns

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the front Drawing room at Mr. Adams House / in Mansfield Street

Signed and dated

1772
datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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