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

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Langside or Aikenhead House, Glasgow: designs for a house and stable offices for Thomas Brown, 1777, as executed (10)
    - Record drawings for the interior decoration of a house including chimneypieces and friezes, 1777, executed status unknown, (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/87

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles decorated with panels containing calyx drops, and enclosed rosettes in the capitals, with a frieze adorned with enclosed anthemion on calyx drops and flanked by calyx, with a moulded cornice

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

South room / Mr Brown’s Breakfasting room at Aikenhead – with some dimensions / (and in a curator’s hand) 87

Signed and dated

9/8/1777
Adelphi / August 9.^th 1777.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (406x292)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Jospeh Bonomi

Watermark

J Whatman

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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