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[2] Stuart office finished drawing for a chimneypiece, possibly for the dressing room, 1766(?), unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/218
Purpose
[2] Stuart office finished drawing for a chimneypiece, possibly for the dressing room, 1766(?), unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation and profile of a chimneypiece, with Corinthian pilaster stiles, ornamented with an urn supporting a band composed of anthemia, figure-of-eight wreaths, calyx, and tubular flowers, and with an architrave ornamented with anthemia, calyx, and strigils, and with a frieze ornamented with rosettes, and swags, with a tablet containing an oval figurative medallion, flanked by swags held by putti, and with rosettes in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for Mrs Montague (in the hand of William Adam) / (and in pencil) Mrs Montagu / astragal plain / fluted [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] to be plain / member and Cornice to be plain / for [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] Little Drawing room
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766 (in an Adam office hand)
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (367 x 234)
Hand
Office of James Stuart, with inscription and date in an Adam office hand
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 41
Stillman, 1966, p. 99
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 99
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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