[6] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the bedchamber, 1776, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Frederick's Place, number 6 (The Great House), London, Mr. Adam, 1776 (6)
      - Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the bedchamber, 1776, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/52

Purpose

[6] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the bedchamber, 1776, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with a stile ornamented with a console terminating in an acanthus leaf, and a frieze ornamented with thistles enclosed within roundels, linked by festoons of husks

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Bed Chamber in Mr. Adam's House- Frederick's Place / 52 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

August 1776
1776. / Adelphi Aug (cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Verso

Rough preliminary plan? (pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 60
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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