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Design for a chimney grate, 1773
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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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