Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  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.
  • image Adam vol.7/102
Use of images and copyright
Enlarge this Image
Print this image in A4 view  (icon indicating printer link)

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

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk

Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).