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Reference number

SM 78/11/9

Purpose

[24] Design (office copy) for the drawing room chimney of Anniston House as executed, 1786

Aspect

Elevation of a statuary marble chimneypiece with brackets and medallions, surmounted by an ornate chimney glass. A pencil sketch of another chimneypiece is also shown

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design for the drawing room Chimney piece Anniston – All Statuary Copy. / Feby 14. ordered the frame. of Mr Rathbone the exact whole size of Glass to be 3 10½ by 2 5½. with dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 16 December 1786
    Decr 16th 1786

Medium and dimensions

Pen with pencil on wove paper (402x303)

Hand

Playfair, James (1755--1794) - Art collections

Notes

Richard Rathbone was a joiner/carver in London and also produced work for Playfair at Cairness House.

Level

Drawing

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