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  • image SM Adam volume 24/162

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/162

Purpose

[23] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1773, unexecuted

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimneypiece with figurative panels in the stiles, flanked by drops of calyx hung from ram masks, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals. There is another rough pencil-drawn chimneypiece on this sheet, but its provenance is unknown

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Stanley / Great room

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    datable to 1773

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (202 x 323)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

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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