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[10] Working drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1774, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 18/53
Purpose
[10] Working drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1774, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece, with an Ionic stile, surmounted by a band of rosettes enclosed within wreaths. There is a lining of rinceaux and anthemia, and a frieze of alternating urns and naturalistic anthemia enclosed within calyx and festoons of beading. The mantel is ornamented with guilloche, stiff leaf, double calyx, egg and dart and miniature enclosed rosettes
Scale
full size
Inscribed
wide / [cropped] high
Signed and dated
- 26/03/1774
[cropped]lphi March 26t. 1774
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, olive green and Indian yellow on laid paper (543 x 497)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 42
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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