[34] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the drawing 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 for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1770, possibly executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/253

Purpose

[34] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1770, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster stiles ornamented with a band of guilloche enclosing rosettes. The capitals contain a rosette enclosed within a roundel, and the frieze is ornamented with a further band of guilloche enclosing rosettes, with a band of dentils above. The chimney lining is bordered by a band of laurel leaf tips, and with calyx, and above this there is a band of trefoils

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing Room at Luton (underwritten in pencil) / 253. and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1770
1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (390 x 273)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

LVG(?) surmounted by a fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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