[14] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, c1774-79, 85-92

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Public buildings
  - Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh: executed, including unexecuted designs for a terrace on Leith Street, a Deputy Ranger’s House, and a guard house, 1772-92 (28)
    - Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the Register House, c1774-79, 85-92, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/199

Purpose

[14] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, c1774-79, 85-92

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with alternative designs shown on each side. The left-hand stile is a plain pilaster, ornamented with an acanthus leaf at the top, and the right-hand stile is a pilaster with a capital of unlobed acanthus leaves, with a feint segmental compartment drawn over the capital, and the frieze contains a compartment of waterleaf and spears to the left, and fluting to the right, with a central tablet containing an urn flanked by a lion and a unicorn, and the left-hand capital contains an urn, and the right-hand capital contains a ram mask enclosed within a wreath of beading

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney for Register Office and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1774-1779 1785-92
date range: 1774-79, 1785-92

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (329 x 249)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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