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[17] Designs for four chimney-pieces
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Reference number
SM 81/2/84
Purpose
[17] Designs for four chimney-pieces
Aspect
(recto) Plans, elevations and details (including pencil details) for two chimney-pieces, the first with an X cancellation mark and (against right-hand design) Approved Octr 24:1798
(verso) plans,elevations and details for two chimney-pieces, both with cancellation marks
Scale
bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
(against right-hand design) Approved of Octr 1798, The South East (small) Drawing / Room, The plan of the / Pilasters, The Plan of the / Shelf and Portland Stone, The Chimney Piece of North west Chamber / the other Chimney Piece on this floor/ to be the same designs but where / there is Marble already that to be / used in the place of Portland Stone, The Plan of the Pilaster, The Plan of the Shelf, Rounded, Portland Stone (twice) and dimensions given
(verso) The Chimney Piece for (?) Arch Room, Plan of the the Pilasters, Plan of the Shelf and The Chimney piece for South West Drawing Room, Plan of the Pilasters, Plan of the Shelf
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, burnt sienna and light red washes washes on thin laid (secretary) paper with severn fold marks (for pocket or post?) ( 339 x 456)
Hand
The office Day Book for 24 Octoner 1798 has George Mansfield (surveyor from 1 May 1797 to December 1800) 'Abt Accts & Sketches of chy piece' for the Countess of Pembroke (for half a day)
Watermark
J Bigg and crowned cartouche with post horn and below, JB
Notes
Although intended for fourdifferent rooms only one design (for the north west chamber) was approve; the others have cancellation marks.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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