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  • image SM Adam volume 22/212

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/212

Purpose

[6] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Elevation as Adam volume 22/213, but with a tablet containing an urn, winged sphinxes, and arabesques

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the front Drawing room for Robert Child Esqr / in Berkly Square (in pen) / and with feint pencil inscriptions on the right-hand side including D:Y. / Body of Building / Front Drawing R[oom], and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
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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