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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/193

Purpose

[60] Design for a chimneypiece for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Ionic pilaster stiles enriches with acanthus leaves up the shaft, and the lining is ornamented with anthemia, palmettes, calyx, and strigils, with a frieze ornamented with festoons, bows, and rosettes, with a figurative tablet, and with enclosed anthemia in the capitals
  • image SM Adam volume 22/193

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Gentleman's Dressing Room and some dimensions (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
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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