[14] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1771, as executed in 1990s

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    - Queen Street, number 8 (formerly 7), Edinburgh: designs for a house for Lord Chief Baron Ord, 1770-71, executed in part, with some alterations (25)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/280

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1771, as executed in 1990s

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with volute consoles on the stiles, lining decorated with laurel leaf tip and beaded moulding, and a frieze of masks and calyx supporting urns. The capitals are decorated with jugs and there is cornice of laurel leaf tip, egg and dart and guilloche moulding above

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Eating Room for Lord Chief Baron Ord ~ / 280 with some illegible pencil annotations

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (421x286)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GR surmounted by a shield and fleur de lis

Notes

The chimneypiece was executed to this design in the 1990s. It is not clear if it was executed earlier and has been removed at a later date.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 12
Brune, 1991, pp. 475-482
Further literature references in scheme notes

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