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  • image SM Adam volume 23/126

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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