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  • image SM Adam volume 22/207

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/207

Purpose

[9] Design for a chimneypiece for Lord Melcombe's dressing room, c1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Part plan, elevation and profile of a chimneypiece with tapering, banded, square engaged Ionic column stiles, ornamented with festoons, and enclosed patera, with a lining ornamented with reeding bound by acanthus leaves, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes, festoons, fluting, military trophies, and an oval figurative medallion, and with a mantel ornamented with acanthus leaves, and dentils

Scale

bar scale of 1 4/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney piece for Lord Melcombe (in pen in the hand of William Adam) / (and in pencil) Ld Melcombe / Gentlemans Dressing room and some measurements given in pen and pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    datable to 1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408 x 288)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature reference 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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