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  • image SM Adam volume 22/83

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/83

Purpose

[10] Design for a chimneypiece for the front room on the second floor, 1765, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with a lining ornamented with acanthus leaves, and a frieze of arabesques, double calyx, and a tablet of strigillation flanking enclosed rosette

Scale

bar scale of 1/8 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the two pair of Stair fore (sic) room at Mr Rogers's / Dwelling House in Laurence Poultney Lane / and feint pencil inscriptions

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (278 x 291)

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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