[2] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed

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  - Fort George, Inverness: executed and unexecuted designs for chimneypieces for Major-General William Skinner, c1767 (5)
    - Preliminary design and finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/235

Purpose

[2] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, c1767, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles ornamented with drops of calyx, with a lining ornamented with beading, and acanthus leaves, with a fluted frieze, and a tablet containing royal insignia as drawing 1, with a mantel ornamented with fluting, laurel leaf tips, and egg and dart moulding, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney piece for the Great Dining Room / for General Skinner at Fort George and some feint pencil inscriptions including 11t House / Parlor / Back Parlor / Mr Lascelles Study and some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1767
datable to c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (395 x 271)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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