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  • image SM Adam volume 17/147

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/147

Purpose

[2] Design for a fire screen for Lady Mills, 1778, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of an oval fire screen, with a frame ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and beading, with an apron of acanthus leaves, rosettes, and a shell-shaped fan, and surmounted by two seated figures, flanking an oval roundel supporting a tazza

Scale

to a scale, possibly full size

Inscribed

Fire Screen / for Lady Mills

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (375 x 636)

Hand

Adam office hand, either Joseph Bonomi or Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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