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  • image SM volume 42/67

Reference number

SM volume 42/67

Purpose

Tracing of design

Aspect

Part-elevation of chimney-piece with oval looking glass with ribboned festoons, and details of mouldings

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Mouldings for Chimneypiece to / little Dressg Room over / Great dressing Room Claremont, labelled A to F, 2½ G [uineas for medallions on frieze?], 4 Guineas and dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • datable to c. 1741-4

Medium and dimensions

Pen on tracing paper (271 x 120)

Hand

traced by Soane, Henry Holland office

Notes

The looking glass with festoons and bows and the chimney-piece with swags and drops as well as medallions seems rather feminine (see 42/67 for a chimney-piece for Lady Clice's dressing room). The 'Great dressing Room' may refer to Lord Clive's dressing room, that soon became a library, on the ground floor.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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