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  • image SM Adam volume 22/77

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/77

Purpose

[9] Design for a chimneypiece for the back parlour, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 22/78, but with peltoid shields instead of enclosed rosettes in the frieze, and arabesques instead of festoons in the tablet, with pencil-drawn annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Charles Rogers Esquire (in a later hand) / and numerous feint pencil inscriptions most of which are illegible but the words Mr Rogers / 7th House / Back Parlor are visible, and some dimensions given (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (413 x 277)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith and William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
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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