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[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1764, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/135
Purpose
[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1764, unexecuted
Aspect
Part plan, elevation and profile of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles, with acanthus capitals, and ornamented with drops of anthemia, tubular flowers, figure-of-eight laurel leaves, calyx, and urns, with a lining ornamented with cable moulding, with a frieze ornamented with an urn, military trophies, and festoons, a mantel ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney piece for Mr Legh's Drawing room at Booths (in pen in the hand of William Adam) / Mr Leghs Drawing rooms at Booths (in pencil) and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1764
1764
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406x292)
Hand
Adma office hand, possibly George Richardson, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
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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