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  • image SM Adam volume 23/210a

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/210a

Purpose

[9] Design for a chimney piece for the west-circular bedchamber, c.1791, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece showing a moulded cornice and stiles, with a frieze decorated with a central enclosed rosette with a festoon below, and enclosed rosettes on the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(In pen) Veined Marble / West Circular Bed Chamber / Veined Stops / Veined / Marble / Veined / Marble / Veined Marble Hearth / (in pencil) s[_ _ _ _] chimney with some dimensions

Signed and dated

  • c.1791
    datable to c.1791

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (277x434)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or John Robertson

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis in a crowned cartouche

Level

Drawing

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