[10] Alternative design for a tablet for the library chimneypiece, 1774, as executed

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    - Apsley House, Piccadilly, London: plans, elevations, section and designs for the interior, and an elevation for the gatehouse, for the 2nd Earl Bathurst, 1771-1779 (56)
      - Designs for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for the library and alternative design for a tablet, 1774-1778 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 18/79

Purpose

[10] Alternative design for a tablet for the library chimneypiece, 1774, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a rectangular figurative tablet depicting a central draped figure reclining against a low pedestal ornamented with festoons and rosettes and surmounted by a globe. The central figure is surrounded by putti and winged putti who support instruments of learning including a plumb bob, manuscripts and a telescope

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Tablet for the Library Chimney Piece at Apsley House

Signed and dated

November 1774
Adelphi / Nov.r 1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, sepia wash and brown pen on laid paper (560 x 279)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Lea, 2005, pp. 8, 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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