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  • image SM Adam volume 23/249

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/249

Purpose

[29] Working drawing for the chimneypiece for the great drawing room, as executed 1777

Aspect

Full size elevation of a detail: stile-panel ornamented with ram masks, a red and black Etruscan-style urns, medallions and a lambrequin

Scale

full size

Inscribed

For the Grand Drawing room Chimney / at Bolton House

Signed and dated

  • August 1777
    Augst 5t 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes within a single ruled pencil border on laid paper (138 x 863)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Index p. 48
Harris, 1995, p. 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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