Explore Collections

You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[6] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Farnaby's dressing room, 1764
Browse
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.
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
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk