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  • image SM Adam volume 23/248

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/248

Purpose

[27] Working drawing for the chimneypiece for the great drawing room, as executed 1777

Aspect

Full size elevation of a detail showing a band of guilloche enclosing rosettes

Scale

full size

Inscribed

For the Great Drawing room Chimney at Bolton House

Signed and dated

  • August 1777
    Adelphi / 5t Augt 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes on laid paper (92 x 211)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index p. 48
Harris, 1995, p. 73
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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