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  • image SM Adam volume 22/78

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/78

Purpose

[8] Design for a chimneypiece for the back parlour, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with rosettes, calyx, and drops of bell flowers, and a frieze ornamented with festoons, bows, enclosed rosettes, and a tablet containing an urn, festoons, and bows

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

For Charles Robert Esqr / Chimney Piece for Mr Rogers (in a later hand)

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (409 x 283)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
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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