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[7] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Griffin's dressing room, 1778
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/126
Purpose
[7] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Griffin's dressing room, 1778
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with stiles ornamented with drops of calyx enclosed by a band of beading, ox skulls, festoons, wreaths, and rosettes, with a frieze ornamented with urns, acanthus leaves and anthemia, with a tablet containing bows, a rosette, and anthemion, festoons, and ox skulls, and with rosettes enclosed by wreaths in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for Lady Griffin's Dressing room in Saville row / (and in pencil) No 4 / Sir John Griffin [ _ _ _ ] of the [ _ _ _ _ _ ]
Signed and dated
- 1778
1778
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 290)
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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