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  • image SM Adam volume 22/134

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/134

Purpose

[10] Design for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Doric pilaster stiles, with a fluted frieze, with a tablet containing an urn containing a vine, with a mantel ornamented with dentils, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Great Parlour at Audley End and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (406 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand

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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