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