Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Chimneypiece with Tablet Showing Sphinxes Confronting Vase; Border of Single Husk Flowers Across Top and Along Sides. Scale

Office of Robert Adam
1728-1792

Chimneypiece with Tablet Showing Sphinxes Confronting Vase; Border of Single Husk Flowers Across Top and Along Sides. Scale

13 5/8 x 18 11/16 inches (347 x 475 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper; framing line in black ink.
1958.23:5

Gift of Mr. Junius S. and Mr. Henry S. Morgan, 1958.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper center, "Design of a Chimney Piece for the Bow Window Dressing Room". Scale indicated at bottom.
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.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department