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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/12

Purpose

[6] Design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room (now the saloon and picture gallery), executed with minor alterations, 1759

Aspect

Elevation as drawing 5

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney piece for Admiral Boscawens Dining Room D and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1759
    [Robt Adam] cut Architect 1759

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (405 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam, with inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume I, p. 142, Volume II, Index p. 17
Hussey, 1956, p. 54
Stillman, 1966, p. 90
Roscoe, 2009, p. 1078
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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