[3] Design for a chimney piece for the south-east bedchamber, 1791, executed status unknown

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Inn at Dunbar, East Lothian: Designs for chimney pieces for James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, c.1791, executed status unknown (10)
    - Designs for a chimney piece for the south-east bedchamber and dining room, c.1791, executed status unknown (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/203b

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimney piece for the south-east bedchamber, 1791, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece showing a moulded cornice and stiles, decorated with a central tablet containing an urn, and enclosed rosettes in the capitals with triglyph panels below

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

(In pen) Veined marble / South East Bed Chamber / Veined Marble Stops & Coving / Veined on Stone Hearth / Viened / Marble / (and in pencil) Dunbar Inn with some dimensions

Signed and dated

24/10/1791
Edin^b 24 Oct^r 1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (273x448)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

Portal & Bridges

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 10
Further literary references in scheme notes

Level

Drawing

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