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[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1764
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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