[25] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1773, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawing for the great drawing room chimneypiece, 1773, Adam volume 23/49 as executed (3)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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