[17] Design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, 1771, unexecuted

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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 22/283

Purpose

[17] Design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with volute stiles containing patarea and winged sphinxes, fluted lining with enclosed rosettes in the corners with laurel leaf tip moulding, and a frieze containing rinceaux and palmettes. The capitals are adorned with enclosed rosettes, and there is a moulded cornice above containing laurel leaf tip

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Great Dining Room at Lord Chief Baron Ord ~ / 283 / (in pencil) Great Dining room Lord Chief Baron Ord

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405x291)

Hand

possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Notes

This drawing is inscribed for the ‘Great Dining Room’ but matches the design in the finished drawing for the first drawing room chimneypiece (SM Adam volume 22/282).

Literature

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

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