[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1777, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, executed designs for interiors and furniture, and designs for garden buildings, for Sir Abraham Hume, 1777-80 (24)
    - Design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1777, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/103

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1777, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with foils enclosing rosettes, and a relief-detail of a pole screen, ornamented with scales and ram masks and supported by a turned post. The capitals contain urns, and there is a frieze of fluting, with a central tablet ornamented with an urn flanked by winged hippocampi

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Hall at Wormleybury / Lord C_ _ _ _ _ _ Saloon (pencil) / faint pencil annotation

Signed and dated

Nov 1777
18 Nov. 1777.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

GR surmounted by fleur-de-lis within a crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 31
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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