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[10] Design for a chimneypiece for the great drawing room, 1765, unexecuted
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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