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  • image SM Adam volume 24/53

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/53

Purpose

[5] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the first-storey dressing room, 1776, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Doric stiles ornamented with drop calyx, and a capital containing a lekythos, with a band of dentils above. The frieze is ornamented with a central panel containing an enclosed rosette, flanked by festoons of calyx

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dressing room one pair Story in Mr. Adam's House / Frederick's Place / 53 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • August 1776
    1776. Adelphi Aug (cropped)

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (404 x 292)

Hand

Probably
James Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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