[12] Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room (now the library), 1774, as 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)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room (now the library), 1774, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/59

Purpose

[12] Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room (now the library), 1774, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with tapered, fluted pilasters with herms in the form of satyrs. The capitals are ornamented with urns, and there is a frieze of rosettes enclosed within wreaths, surrounded by thrysi. There is a central tablet ornamented with a mask enclosed within a rosette, and flanked by winged sphinxes. This is surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll and has an apron of ram masks, rosettes and festoons

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Eating room at Apsley House and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1774
1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (405 x 291)

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
Harris, 2001(b), p. 101
Lea, 2005, pp.9, 14
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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