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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/245

Purpose

[22] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, c1777

Aspect

Rough elevation of a chimneypiece, with an architrave ornamented with dentils, and with a frieze ornamented with egg and dart, a rosette enclosed within a wreath, and two half anthemia, and surmounted by an overmantel composed of three large roundels divided by double calyx(?)
  • image SM Adam volume 23/245

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Mr Keate and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1772-78
    date range: 1772-78

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (184 x 223)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
Harris, 1963, p. 54
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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