[37] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third 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)
      - Designs for a chimneypiece and overmantel mirror frame for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1774, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/62

Purpose

[37] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Bathurst's dressing room / third drawing room, 1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with tripartite stiles ornamented with masks, rosettes, tubular flowers and drop calyx. The lining is ornamented with fluting and the capitals contain ram masks, swags and roundels depicting sphinxes. The frieze is ornamented with anthemia and arabesques and the mantel has a band of Vitruvian scroll

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece in the third Drawing room at Apsley House and dimensions given

Signed and dated

1774
1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, Indian yellow and cerulean blue on laid paper (405 x 290)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Watermark

IVILLEDARY

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 44
Harris, 2001(b), p. 100
Lea, 2005, p. 9
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

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