[31] Design for a chimneypiece for music room, 1775, possibly 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 23/66

Purpose

[31] Design for a chimneypiece for music room, 1775, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with masks and festoons of beading suspending musical instruments and drop calyx. The capitals contain cameos and there is a frieze of musical instruments alternating with tubular flowers supporting birds, all enclosed within wreaths

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Music room at Lady Home's in Portman Square- (underwritten in pencil) / 66

Signed and dated

Feb 1775
Adelphi / 1st Febry 1775 (underwritten in pencil)

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and cerulean blue wash on laid paper (405 x 291)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IHS IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 44, 64
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 290
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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