[15] Design for a chimneypiece for Mr Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted

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  - Rt Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie: unexecuted designs for a castle, a tower and a church, 1766 (26)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/154

Purpose

[15] Design for a chimneypiece for Mr Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with an architrave ornamented with egg and dart, a frieze containing pencil-drawn fluting, and with a tablet containing an enclosed rosette, flanked by urns on turned pedestals, connected by a festoon, and a pencil-drawn annotation to the right-hand side, showing the motifs in the tablet repeated as if in a frieze

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for Mr Mackenzie's Dressing Room / B Parlor (in pencil) / Front House DY (in pencil) / Bed Chamr (in pencil) / Length & Breadth of the / Marble Slab to be _ Feet / the Slab to be as broad as / can be / About 14£ (in pencil) and some measurement given in pencil

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (427 x 274)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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