[12] Design for a hearth slab for the drawing room, 1774, executed with minor alterations

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    - Northumberland House, The Strand, London: designs for the drawing room and dining room for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1770-79 (24)
      - Preliminary design, design and record drawing for a hearth slab for the drawing room, 1774, executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 39/9

Purpose

[12] Design for a hearth slab for the drawing room, 1774, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular hearth slab, showing a chimneypiece with engaged column stiles. The slab is ornamented with a grid of connected rosettes and enclosed rosettes, and with a border shown with alternative designs of fret of exaggerated calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1 7/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Slab for the Drawing Room Chimney at Northumberland House. in London (in London in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

09/07/1774
Adelphi 9th July 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and Indian yellow on laid paper (419 x 318)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
Harris, 2001, p. 99
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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