[18] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and mirror frame for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Cullen House, Moray: designs for the interior decoration of Cullen House and an entrance screen for James Ogilvy, 6th Earl of Findlater and 3rd Earl of Seafield, and designs for a chimney piece and furniture for the drawing room at Cullen House, along with a tea pavilion, town house or gardener’s house, and a gated lodge for James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield, 1767-83, executed in part (26)
    - Preliminary drawings and designs for mirror frames, a commode and a chimneypiece in the drawing room for the 7th Earl of Findlater, 1781, unexecuted (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/167

Purpose

[18] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and mirror frame for the drawing room, 1781, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece and mirror frame, same as SM Adam volume 20/226, with additional detailing to the frame include a border of enclosed anthemion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece & Glass frame for the Drawing room at Cullen / 167

Signed and dated

1781
datable to 1781

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured wash including cerulean and yellow ochre on laid paper (325x508)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 8
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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