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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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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