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[7] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/264
Purpose
[7] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Ionic pilasters stiles, with drops in the shafts composed of anthemia, scrolled hearts, calyx, urns, enclosed rosettes, and tubular flowers, and with a frieze ornamented with anthemia flanked by arabesques, with masks enclosed within wreaths of beading in the capitals, and with a tablet containing an urn on a pedestal, flanked by winged griffons
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for the front Drawing Room one pair of Stairs. for Sir Robert Rich Bart. / (and in pencil) D Yd / Front Drawing Room / Opening 4 by [ _ ]
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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