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  • image SM Adam volume 23/221

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/221

Purpose

[5] Design for a chimney piece for the great room, c.1791, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece showing a moulded cornice and stiles, decorated with a central tablet bound by a frieze containing rosettes, and flanked by a pair of fluted console brackets terminating in acanthus leaves with moulded panels below

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Inn at Dunbar / great room with some dimensions

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (297x226)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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