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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/137

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1764

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with rosettes, calyx, and Vitruvian scroll, with a lining ornamented with acanthus leaves, and laurel leaf tips, with a frieze ornamented with urns, peltoid shields, enclosed rosettes, and festoons, and a mantel ornamented with acanthus leaves, and dentils

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dining Room at Kippington House for Sr Charles Farnaby Baronet (in pen) / (and in pencil) Wood £16.0.0 / Marble £16.0.0 / £32.0.0

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (338 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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