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