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  • image SM Adam volume 22/29

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/29

Purpose

[19] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the large parlour, executed with alterations, 1761

Aspect

Part plan, elevation and profile with double volute stiles, bay leaf frieze, a tablet with putti, and a pedimented overmantel on Corinthian columns and containing a religious roundel

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Large Parlor / Shardeloes (in pencil) / Chimney Piece for the large Parlor at Shardeloes (in the hand of William Adam) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1761
    1761

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (292 x 412)

Hand

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, index p. 28
Stillman, 1966, pp. 62, 91
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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