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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/78

Purpose

[1] Design for a chimneypiece for an unknown house, 1776, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with a drop of wheat sheaves and vines on the left-hand side, and a drop of calyx hung from a bow on the right-hand side; with a fluted frieze with a tablet containing an urn, and with oval enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Rev.d Mr Travell and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1776
    1776.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 58
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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