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  • image SM Adam volume 23/109

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/109

Purpose

[6] Record copy for a chimney piece for the library, 1778, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimney piece comprising stiles with tapered pedestals decorated with ram heads, enclosed rosettes and festoons of husks with peltoid shields and calyx drops, with globes in the capitals, with a central panel containing figures, flanked by a frieze of bucrania with festoons, with a waterleaf cornice and guilloche mantel

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Library at Culean Castle / 109

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407x292)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Watermark

GR surmounted by a fleur de lis within a crowned cartouche

Notes

This chimneypiece was relocated to the ‘best bedroom’ which was converted into Lady Ailsa’s boudoir in the 1870s.

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 9
Harris, 2001, pp. 327-332
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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