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London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design showing one half of a chimneypiece, with the royal arms as a pediment supported by a caryatid figure on a base as a side jamb.
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Reference number
Adam vol.7/102
Purpose
London: Parliament House (designs for). Unfinished design showing one half of a chimneypiece, with the royal arms as a pediment supported by a caryatid figure on a base as a side jamb.
Aspect
Elevation
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1762-63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk179 x 196
Hand
George Richardson (attributed to)
Notes
This chimneypiece was probably intended for the royal apartments in James Adam's Parliament House scheme of 1762/63; there is another sketch for it in Adam vol.7/68 verso. The style of draughtsmanship here is similar to that found in Adam vol.7/94, attributed to George Richardson (d. c.1813).The chimneypieces proposed for George III at Buckingham Palace of 1761 are simpler compositions (see Adam vol.22/56-58), although Adam vol.22/58 has the iconographic forms of lion and unicorn on the frieze.
Level
Drawing
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