[10] Working drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1774, as executed

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    - Northumberland House, The Strand, London: designs for the drawing room and dining room for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1770-79 (24)
      - Design and finished drawing for a pier glass and overmantel mirror frame, and finished drawing and working drawing for the chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame, 1773-74, SM Adam volumes 20/17-18 and 22/55 executed with alterations, SM Adam volume 18/53 as executed (4)

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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.

Level

Drawing

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