[5] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the first floor large room, 1782, unexecuted

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  - The Tower of London, London, designs for chimneypieces and mirror frames for Mr Weaver, 1782-3, unexecuted (12)
    - Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the first floor large room, 1782, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/142

Purpose

[5] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the first floor large room, 1782, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with pilaster stiles ornamented with an ox skull, festoons of husks suspending a wreath, drop calyx, and an anthemion. The capital contains a rosette enclosed within a wreath and superimposed on crossed thyrsi. The frieze is ornamented with a band of enclosed calyx and fluting, and there is a central tablet containing an urn ornamented with gadrooning, swags and sphinxes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney piece for the one pair large room at Mr Weavers house in the Tower / 142 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

July 1782
July 1782

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (406 x 285)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Verso

Preliminary design for a chimneypiece (pencil), possibly for SM Adam volume 23/143, bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Watermark

LVD surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 51
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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