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[11] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room (later the tapestry room), 1767, as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/224
Purpose
[11] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the drawing room (later the tapestry room), 1767, as executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Corinthian pilaster stiles, ornamented with drops including wreaths, anthemia, urns, tablets, enclosed rosettes, and calyx; and with an architrave ornamented with anthemia, and calyx; and with a frieze ornamented with winged sphinxes flanking an altar; with a tablet containing an oval figurative panel, flanked by tassels and festoons; and with peltoid shields in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Sir Rowland Winn (in pencil) / Chimney Piece for the Drawing room at Nostel (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1767
1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Harris, 2001, pp. 354, 355
Knox and Raikes, 2008, p. 55
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 122-123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, pp. 354, 355
Knox and Raikes, 2008, p. 55
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 122-123
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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