[13] Design for a chimneypiece for the front parlour, 1775, as executed

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    - Home House, Portman Square, number 17 (now 20), London, for the Countess of Home, 1775-78 (73)
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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

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.

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