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[22] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, c1777
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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(?)
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.
Harris, 1963, p. 54
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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