[37] Design for a chimneypiece for the library, 1766, executed with minor alterations

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/209

Purpose

[37] Design for a chimneypiece for the library, 1766, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with fluted console stiles, ornamented with acanthus leaves, and drops of calyx, with a fluted lining, with a frieze ornamented with calyx, and rosettes enclosed by guilloche, and with a tablet containing a globe flanked by half-putti, and arabesques, and with a mantel ornamented with Vitruvian scroll, acanthus leaves, and dentils

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Library at Osterley (in pen) / (and in pencil) Library at Osterly / 1st House / [cropped] Y[ard] River front Parlor / Salon / (and in pencil in the hand of Arthur Bolton) 6 in this style / at Osterley. / Hall . Bedchamber / Dressing Room / + Powdering Room / Drawing Room / Library

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 25
Stillman, 1966, p. 88
Rowan, 1988, p. 69
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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