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  • image SM Adam volume 17/130

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/130

Purpose

[41] Unfinished design for a fire grate for the great drawing room, 1779, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a fire grate, as Adam volume 24/209

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Grate for sir Ab.m Hume Bar.t 130 (pencil) / faint pencil inscription and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • Oct 1779
    23.d Oc (cropped) / 1779.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (302 x 212)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Verso

Preliminary plan? (pencil)

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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