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[4] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1765, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/147
Purpose
[4] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1765, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with fluted Ionic column stiles, a frieze ornamented with festoons, ribbons and enclosed flowers, and an urn in each capital, and with pencil-drawn annotations to the right-hand side of the sheet
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for The Duke of Richmond (in the hand of William Adam) / (and the following in pencil) Drawing Room / White / Sepia Ground / White / Drawing room / Mr Olivers Drawing Room and various other illegible feint inscriptions in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (298 x 211)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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