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  • image SM Adam volume 22/128

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/128

Purpose

[28] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1763, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Part plan, elevation and profile of a chimneypiece, with engaged Ionic column stiles, an architrave ornamented with laurel leaves, a frieze of rosettes and swags, with a tablet containing a tazza, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Drawing Room / at Hatch House and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (304 x 260)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
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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