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  • image SM Adam volume 22/141

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/141

Purpose

[6] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Farnaby's dressing room, 1764

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with rosettes, and calyx, with a lining ornamented with fluting, and laurel leaf moulding, with a frieze ornamented with anthemia, and acanthus leaves, with a tablet containing an urn, bows, festoons, and military trophies, with a mantel ornamented with acanthus leaves, and with rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Lady Farnaby's Dressing Room at Kippington (in pen) / (and in pencil) £15.3.0 / Marb £12.0.0 / £27.3

Signed and dated

  • 1764
    1764

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (292 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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