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[29] Working drawing for the chimneypiece for the great drawing room, as executed 1777
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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.
Harris, 1995, p. 73
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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