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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/85

Purpose

[1] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the dining room of a house, 1777, executed status unknown

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with moulded lining, plain stiles with capitals adorned with beaded moulding and enclosed urns, with a frieze decorated with calyx and anthemion with a central panel containing a basket flanked by urns on decorative pedestals, and a moulded cornice

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Mr Brown’s Dining room at Aikenhead / Wood / Marble with some dimensions / (and in a curator’s hand) 85

Signed and dated

  • 9/8/1777
    Adelphi / 9& Aug.st 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (364x257)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Jospeh Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 1
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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