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  • image SM Adam volume 22/66

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/66

Purpose

[41] Design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation with piers ornamented with diminishing drops surmounted by a vase, and bands of egg and dart, acanthus and tongue, fluting and cable moulding. The frieze is ornamented with rosettes, swags and husks and bands of dentil and laurel leaf moulding

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Anti room at Lord Coventry's in Piccadilly

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (378 x 295)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
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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