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  • image SM Adam volume 22/148

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/148

Purpose

[5] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation as in drawing Adam volume 22/147, but to a different scale and without pencil annotations

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for The Duke of Richmond (in the hand of William Adam) and various other feint inscriptions in pencil including 3d House / River front Parlor

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (416 x 275)

Hand

Adma office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 15
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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