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  • image SM Adam volume 22/244

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/244

Purpose

[7] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for a dining room, 1769, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with drops of calyx hung from bows in the stiles, surmounted by jugs in the capitals, with a fluted lining ornamented with enclosed rosettes, guilloche and waterleaf, a frieze of festoons hung from bows, enclosed rosettes, and a tablet containing a tazza flanked by festoons, and a mantel ornamented with laurel leaf tips, egg and dart and fluting

Scale

bar scale of 1 ¼ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dining Room for _ Thornhill Esqr.

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (312 x 251)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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