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[6] Record copy for a chimney piece for the library, 1778, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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
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.
Harris, 2001, pp. 327-332
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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