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Office of Robert Adam
1728-1792
Chimneypiece with Frieze of Dancing Figures Across Top Panel; Side Panels Show Variant Designs with Lamps or Incense Burners on Pedestals. Profiles: Scale
Pen and black ink and wash, with yellow watercolor, on paper; framing line in black ink.
14 9/16 x 21 inches (373 x 532 mm)
Gift of Mr. Junius S. and Mr. Henry S. Morgan, 1958.
1958.23:6
Inscription:
Inscribed at left, "No. 1"; at right, "No. 2". Scale indicated at bottom.
Provenance:
Mrs. J.P. Morgan; by descent to her sons, Junius S. and Henry S. Morgan.
Associated names:
Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.
Bibliography:
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 110-111.
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