[5] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
      - Unfinished design and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/213

Purpose

[5] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with acanthus leaves, masks, and drops of ribbon, urns, cameos, bows, military trophies, wreaths, and baskets, with a lining ornamented with beading, calyx, and acanthus leaves, with a fluted frieze ornamented with beading, with a blank tablet, with a mantel ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and dentils, and with enclosed paterae in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the front Drawing room at Robert Child Esqrs / in Berkly Square

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 2000, p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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