[12] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the back drawing room, 1769, roughly as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)
      - Alternative unfinished designs for a chimneypiece for the back drawing room, 1769, roughly as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/215

Purpose

[12] Unfinished design for a chimneypiece for the back drawing room, 1769, roughly as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Ionic pilaster stiles, a lining ornamented with egg and dart moulding, a frieze containing roundels enclosed by lozenges of beading, with a blank tablet, and with a mantel ornamented with fluting, and rosettes enclosed by cusps

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the back Drawing room at Mr Childs in Berkly Square and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 35
Harris, 2000, p. 43
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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