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[60] Design for a chimneypiece for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767
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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
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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