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[13] Design for a chimneypiece for the front parlour, 1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/63
Purpose
[13] Design for a chimneypiece for the front parlour, 1775, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with tapering fluted supports surmounted by roundels containing urns. The capitals are ornamented with masks, and there is a fluted frieze and central tablet containing an urn flanked by sphinxes. Above there is an overmantel panel with a central figurative roundel enclosed within a band of fluting. There are Corinthian pilaster stiles ornamented with anthemia, capitals containing lion masks, a frieze of swags and peltoid shields and a central figurative cameo
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the front Parlor at Lady Home's in Portman Square- / (and in pencil) Mr o Byrion(?) Dining Room / faint pencil inscription bottom left corner
Signed and dated
- May 1775
Adelphi / 13. May 1775.
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including yellow ochre on laid paper (439 x 590)
Hand
Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 13, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 35, 61
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, pp. 13, 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 35, 61
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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