[20] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1771, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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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)
      - Designs, finished drawings and record copies for chimneypieces for a house, 1771 (10)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/284

Purpose

[20] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the second drawing room, 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece showing a lining with egg and dart moulding, and beading, flanked by plain stiles with fluted capitals containing anthemion, and a frieze containing festoons and enclosed masks, with harps above the capitals, and a moulded cornice with rosettes and laurel leaf tip moulding

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the second Drawing Room for Lord Chief Baron Ord ~ / 284

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a ruled border on laid paper (433x287)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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