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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/71
Purpose
[1] Design for a chimneypiece, 1762
Aspect
Part plan and elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of foliage hung from bows, with a frieze ornamented with fluting enclosing calyx, with a tablet containing a mask enclosed by a wreath, and flanked by foliage, and with enclosed paterae in the capitals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for The Right Honble The Earl of Panmure / (and in pencil) Ante Room / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] Inch and some measurements given in pen and pencil
Signed and dated
- 1762
1762
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 291)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 26
Adam, 2011, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Adam, 2011, p. 32
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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