[14] Finished drawing for alternative design for a chimneypiece for the great room, 1763

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Bowood, Calne, Wiltshire: designs for the house, offices and park buildings, for William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 1761-71 (32)
    - Designs for the interior
      - Finished drawings for alternative designs for a chimneypiece for the great room, 1763, drawing 16 executed with minor alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/94

Purpose

[14] Finished drawing for alternative design for a chimneypiece for the great room, 1763

Aspect

Elevation and side elevation of a chimneypiece with fluted Ionic columns for stiles, a lining ornamented with calyx and anthemia, and a band of egg and dart moulding, a tablet containing a mask, festoons and military trophies, a frieze of flowers enclosed by acanthus leaves, and rosettes in the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney piece for the Great room at Bowood / (and in pencil) There is a [ _ _ _ ] like in the Library [illegibly feint pencil inscription] chimney / Piece for Bowd P[ _ _ _ ] being of the Corinthian not Ionic order [presumably relating to Adam volume 22/96]

Signed and dated

1763
1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and olive green wash on laid paper (405 x 275)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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