[6] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre 1769, unexecuted

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Alnwick Castle, Northumberland: designs for interior decoration and buildings in the park for the 1st Duke of Northumberland, 1769-83 (36)
    - Alternative design, finished drawing and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre-1769 and 1769, Adam volume 22/52-53 thought to be executed with alterations (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/51

Purpose

[6] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, pre 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with an ogee opening, and a lining with fluted engaged columns, and a pointed canopy; ornamented with crockets, heraldic roundels, and a trefoil. The stiles are composed of narrow paired compound engaged columns, flanking a pedestal ornamented with a quatrefoil, surmounted by an octagonal pedestal, and above is another pointed canopy; ornamented with crockets and fluting. The mantel is ornamented with octagonal pedestals supporting pinecones, and between these are lozenges enclosing quatrefoils

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room Chimney Piece for Alnwick Castle (underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

pre 1769
datable to before 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including red and Prussian blue on laid paper (268 x 247)

Hand

Unknown eighteenth-century hand

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 1
Harris, 2001, pp. 85, 343
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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