Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[44] Working drawing for a painted chimneypiece for Lady Mansfield's sitting-cum-dressing room, unexecuted, 1783
Browse
Reference number
SM Adam volume 49/31
Purpose
[44] Working drawing for a painted chimneypiece for Lady Mansfield's sitting-cum-dressing room, unexecuted, 1783
Aspect
Full size elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece stile composed of a pedestal ornamented with ram masks, and surmounted by a painted urn ornamented with bands of Vitruvian scroll and holding flowers, and the pedestal and urn are flanked by pilasters ornamented with tubular flowers in the shafts
Scale
full size
Inscribed
Lord Mansfield painted Chimney (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 1
Signed and dated
- 1783
datable to 1783
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including olive green, Prussian blue and pink on laid paper (415 x 641)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison, with title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 19
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk