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  • image SM Adam volume 22/133

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/133

Purpose

[13] Design for a chimneypiece, possibly for a dressing room, 1765

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with rosettes, and calyx, with a frieze of peltoid shields, and festoons, with a central tablet containing an urn, and arabesques, and with a mantel ornamented with fluting, laurel leaf tips, and dentils

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 1 foot

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (244 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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