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

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      - Designs and record drawings for chimneypieces in the principal rooms, 1778, as executed (16)

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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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