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[5] Design for a chimneypiece for Sir Charles's dressing room, 1764
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/140
Purpose
[5] Design for a chimneypiece for Sir Charles's dressing room, 1764
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece without stiles, and with a fluted lining ornamented with egg and dart moulding, and laurel leaf tips, with a frieze of anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts, and with a mantel ornamented by acanthus leaves, and egg and dart moulding, and with a pencil-drawn annotation showing the frieze to the left-hand side
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for Sir Charles Farnaby's Dressing Room at Kippington (in pen) / (and in pencil) Parlour / Ellis / Joiner & Carver £9 / Marble Carvings £12 /£21 and some measurements and rough calculations in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1764
[Cropped] Adam Archt 1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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