[53] Record copy of designs for four types of chimney-piece

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  - Tendring Hall, Suffolk: (executed) house for Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1783-1789 (55)

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Reference number

SM volume 41/77 verso

Purpose

[53] Record copy of designs for four types of chimney-piece

Aspect

Elevations for four chimney-pieces, A, B, C, D

Scale

pricking through bar scale of 1/20 inch to one foot

Inscribed

Chimney-piece A: Chimney for State Bedchamber / also the same design for / the Chimney in Lady / Rowleys Chamber of the / greatest dimensions the / Brickwork will allow and (detail of plan) Wall Line, Marble. Chimney-piece B: (pencil) Eat[in]^g, (pen) Chimney piece for S^rJoshua Room / Hall Storey and This Chimney piece to project before the Wall only to stop / the dado Mouldings. Chimney-piece C: Chimney piece for the Chamber over hall - / the N.E.Chamber / the middle chambers in the East Front / the Dressing Room in the young Lady Apartm[ent]^sas wide & as high as the Brickwork allows / the Dressing Room in the Mezzanine Story ...d^o/ the two dressings in the West front Hall Story ...d^o,All the ornament / will be done in / Town & sent, (detail of plan labelled) Wall Line, Marble (twice) and Firestone. Chimney-piece (pencil) D: (pen) Chimney piece for New Cham.^r/ for S W d^oSq^r/ for the two mezz.^e/ Chamber / These Chimneys to project only to receive the base Mouldings / NB All the Mantles must be secured with three Screws to an Iron Bar let in / behind the frieze where necessary. Some dimensions given and Chimney piece for the Eating Room / Library / Dressing Room / Lady Rowley dress^g Room / will be made in London 54 as above, Tendring Hall / Chimney piece D --- Mouldings and labelled Wall Line, Line of Architrave, Marble, Line of frieze,and D 55 Tendring Hall (twice), Chimney piece for Tendring Hall, Wall line (twice), Marble (twice), Sunk (twice), This project before as p^rplan and A

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (364 x 244) bound into 'Precedents in Architecture ' SM volume 41

Watermark

T French

Notes

Chimney-piece A has a Vitruivian scroll decoration to the frieze and the jambs have flutes with a small leaf ornament. Chimney-piece B has festoons and urns in the frieze and a drop to each jamb. Chimney-piece C has swags decorating the frieze and heart-shaped leaves on the left jamb or an alternative drop on the right. Chimney-piece D has a bell-flower, bead and ribbon festoon with drops. The chimney-pieces for three or four of the most important rooms were to be entirely made in London, while the ornament for the remainder was also made in London.

SM volume 41/75 verso, SM volume 41/77 recto, SM volume 41/77 verso, SM volume 41/78 recto and SM volume 41/78 verso are record copies of designs for which the original drawings have mostly not survived.

Level

Drawing

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