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  • image SM Adam volume 22/239

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/239

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for General Skinner's bedchamber, c1767, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece without stiles, with a lining ornamented with cusps, and laurel leaf tips, with a frieze ornamented with calyx, and anthemia enclosed by scrolled hearts, and with a mantel ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and egg and dart moulding

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Bed Chamber / for General Skinner at Fort George (in pen) / For General Skinner at Fort George (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1767
    datable to c1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (451 x 281)

Hand

James Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
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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