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  • image SM Adam volume 17/125b

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/125b

Purpose

Design for a chimney grate, 1773

Aspect

Elevation of a grate, with legs ornamented with fluting, acanthus leaves, and drops of calyx, and pedetals on paw feet, ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, festoons, and enclosed rosettes, supporting a band of enclosed anthemia, enclosed rosettes, fluting and ram heads, supporting urns, winged griffons, anthemia enclosed by wreaths, a turned andiron, and a tripartite, arched fire back ornamented with enclosed anthemia, drops of calyx, fans, the central fan containing anthemia, and a band of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1773
    1773

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (343 x 541)

Hand

Adam office hand

Level

Drawing

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