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  • image SM Adam volume 24/182

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/182

Purpose

[29] Rough preliminary design for a chimneypiece for Lord Mansfield's dressing room, 1779, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a chair, with turned legs, a seat rail ornamented with rosettes, and a cartouche-shaped back ornamented with a central patera, and an elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece, with a stile ornamented with an deer(?) skull, a festoon, and a drop, with a tablet in the frieze, and a rosette in the capital, and an elevation of a cornice, containing a frieze ornamented with roundels enclosing alternating rosettes and urns

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

some dimensions given (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1779
    datable to 1779

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (231 x 206)

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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