[8] Design for a chimneypiece for the ground floor drawing room, 1774, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - 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)
      - Preliminary design and design for a chimneypiece for the ground floor drawing room (now the entrance hall), 1774, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/57

Purpose

[8] Design for a chimneypiece for the ground floor drawing room, 1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with pilaster stiles ornamented with masks enclosed within rosettes, swags and ram masks all surmounted by an urn bearing an anthemion and drop of calyx. The capitals contain a patera and the frieze is ornamented with arabesques and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Drawing room Parlor Story at Apsley House and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1774
1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (405 x 290)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

Fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Lea, 2005, p. 8
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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