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Design for a chimneypiece for the library, 1763, unexecuted (1)

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The chimneypiece design executed in Adam's library at Audley end has profile volute stiles and a fluted frieze. There is a drawing for this chimneypiece at the house. It was removed when Adam's library was demolished in 1825, and replaced in the new library in the storey above.

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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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