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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/263

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining parlour, 1769

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles, ornamented with laurel leaves, and above acanthus leaves and drops of calyx, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes and Greek key fret, with urns in the capitals, and a tablet ornamented with a tazza flanked by rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Dining Parlor / for Sir Robert Rich Baronet / (and in pencil) Body of Building D[cropped] / Front Drawing Room 3d [cropped] / Opening 4.6 / [cropped _ _ _ _ _ ] D of Bottom and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (407 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
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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