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  • image SM Adam volume 22/74

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/74

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece, 1762

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with patera, rosettes, and arabesques of acanthus leaves, calyx, and rosettes, with a fluted frieze, with a tablet containing an enclosed mask, festoons, bows, and military trophies, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals, and a part profile drawn in pencil to the right-hand side

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Lord Frederick Campbell / (and in feint pencil) [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] / Body of Building / For Drawing [ _ _ _ ] / [ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] 4.6 / 4.0 / Black Marbling and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 2
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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