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[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1778
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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