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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/125

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1778

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of bows, wreaths, rosettes, ox masks, festoons, urns, and calyx, with a frieze ornamented with fluting enclosing urns, calyx and anthemia, with a tablet containing an enclosed rosettes, a wreath, festoons of beading, and urns, and with oval figurative medallions and rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Drawing room at Sir John Griffin Griffin's House / in Saville Row / (and in pencil) Circular Drawing room plain frieze / Statuary Marble and Statuary Slab / ornamented as the design £112-14-0 and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1778
    1778

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
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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