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[41] Preliminary design for a painted chimneypiece for Lady Mansfield's sitting-cum-dressing room, unexecuted, 1783
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/180
Purpose
[41] Preliminary design for a painted chimneypiece for Lady Mansfield's sitting-cum-dressing room, unexecuted, 1783
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with paired Ionic pilaster stiles, ornamented between the pilasters with an urn supported by a pedestal ornamented with ram masks, a patera, a festoon of beading, and a drop including a peltoid shield, and with a frieze ornamented with vesica-shaped compartments articulated by drops of calyx, and with oval medallions in the capitals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1783
datable to 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (296 x 242)
Hand
Robert Adam
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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