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Designs for two chimney-pieces of brown, green, white and black marble
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Reference number
SM volume 42/118
Purpose
Designs for two chimney-pieces of brown, green, white and black marble
Aspect
Elevations, the jambs and mantel decorated (left) with fluting, bosses and label, and (right) cabled fluting (for the jambs) and rosettes
Scale
to a scale
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia, green and burnt umber washes, watercolour technique, shaded, on laid paper with one fold mark (234 x 398)
Hand
unidentified
Watermark
n/a pasted down
Notes
The variant designs share the same mantelshelf, lining and plinth block. The first (left) relies on the geometry of tapered, fluted pilasters crowned by a boss while the other (right) adds cables to the fluting of the jambs, has rosettes instead of bosses and no central label.In the same unidentified hand as another pair of designs for chimney-pieces (42/6) and also for a memorial tablet (SM 57/88).
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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