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  • image SM Adam volume 17/138

Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/138

Purpose

[70] Finished drawing for a chimney board for the state bedchamber, 1778, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation as drawing Adam volume 17/139 but with a lower register of enclosed rosettes, festoons, arabesques and poppy buds, and with a border of enclosed calyx

Scale

bar scale of 2 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Board for the Bed Chamber at Osterly / (and in pencil) A Green Ground / Yellow ornam[ _ _ _ ] / same

Signed and dated

  • August 1778
    Adelphi / 22d Augst 1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including Naples yellow, terre verte and pink on laid paper (410 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Tomlin, 1972, pp. 66-67
Beard, 1978, p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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