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  • image SM Adam volume 22/146

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/146

Purpose

[24] Design for a chimneypiece for the tea pavilion, c1763-65, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles ornamented with rosettes, and calyx, with a frieze ornamented with double calyx and anthemia, and surmounted by a round fluted overmantel mirror frame, flanked by festoons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Tea room at Moor Park and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1763-1765
    date range: 1763-65

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (258 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
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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