[31] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1770, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
    - Unfinished design and design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1769-70 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/252

Purpose

[31] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1770, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster stiles, and a capital containing a bust, with a scrolled leaf below. The lining of the chimney is bordered with beading and a band of acanthus leaves, or alternatively egg and dart moulding. The chimneypiece has a frieze of rosettes enclosed within roundels and festoons of husks, and above this there is a band of laurel leaf tips

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Peice for the Anti Room at Luton. (underwritten in pencil) / 252 and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

April 1770
April 6.t 1770- / 1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (420 x 264)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, P. 69; Volume II, Index, p. 21
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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