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[15] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/171
Purpose
[15] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1773, unexecuted
Aspect
Rough elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles, one of which is shown in profile, and the other ornamented with masks, and beyond which is a band of scrolled hearts, and with a lining of scrolled hearts, urns in the capitals, and a frieze of alternating urns and double calyx connected by arabesques, and with a pencil-drawn tripod perfume burner, resting on birds, on the right-hand side of the sheet
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Lord Stanley 2d or 3d Drawing room (in pen) / No 5 (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1773
datable to 1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (324 x 202)
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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