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  • image SM Adam volume 22/169

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/169

Purpose

[3] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the Hall (now the morning room), 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with fluted volute stiles ornamented with beading, with a lining ornamented with laurel leaf tips, with a fluted frieze, with a mantel ornamented with fluting, and egg and dart moulding, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Hall at Ugbrooke (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (424 x 279)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
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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