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