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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.

Level

Drawing

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

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