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[25] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1773, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/49
Purpose
[25] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1773, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles, ornamented with urns supported by pedestals, and vesica-shaped medallions, enclosed within beading and festoons, and with ram masks at the top, and with a frieze ornamented with fluting, miniature enclosed rosettes, a central circular medallion flanked by winged sphinxes with rinceaux tails, and with enclosed lion masks in the capitals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for the Great Drawing Room at Lord Stanley's / in Grosvenor Square. Statuary Marble inlaid with Scagliola Ornaments & Figures / The Mouldings in Or Moulu and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1773
1773
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including Indian yellow on laid paper (406 x 292)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Stillman, 1966, p. 74
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 74
Harris, 2001, p. 363
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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