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  • image SM Adam volume 22/139

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/139

Purpose

[4] Design for a chimneypiece for Sir Charles's bedchamber, 1764

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with plain stiles, with a lining ornamented with rosettes enclosed by cusps, with a frieze ornamented with calyx, rosettes, and arabesques, with a tablet containing a mask, and swags, and with a mantel ornamented with egg and dart moulding, and laurel leaf tips, and with pencil-drawn annotations to the left-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1 1 /4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Sr Charles Farnaby's Bed Chamber at Kippington (in pen) / (and in pencil) Corinth pillar / Wood Carving £7.15.0 / Marble chimney £10.0.0 / £17.15.0 and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (341 x 291)

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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