Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [18] Design for a chimneypiece, 1765, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 22/76

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/76

Purpose

[18] Design for a chimneypiece, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with rosettes enclosed by figure-of-eight wreaths, and a frieze ornamented with crossed swords behind an enclosed patera, and swags, and with a tablet containing an urn, arabesques, and a vine, and with a lining of guilloche

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Charles Rogers Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) and some feint pencil inscriptions Mr Rogers

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (431 x 289)

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk