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  • image SM Adam volume 22/238

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/238

Purpose

[4] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, c1767, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with plain stiles, a lining ornamented with egg and dart moulding, and laurel leaf tips, a frieze of enclosed rosettes, bows, and festoons, and a mantel ornamented with dentils

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Drawing Room / at Fort George for General Skinner (in pen) / (and in pencil) Back Parlour / End house [ _ _ _ _ ] of / Moulding [ _ _ _ _ _ ] Marble / 4 by 3.8

Signed and dated

  • c1767
    datable to c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (396 x 267)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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