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  • image SM Adam volume 22/127

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/127

Purpose

[26] Variant design for a chimneypiece for the great dining room, 1763

Aspect

Elevation and profile of a chimneypiece, with volute stiles, ornamented with fluting, fans, acanthus leaves, patera, and rinceau, with an architrave ornamented with half rosettes enclosed within lunettes, and with a blank frieze and capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dining room at Hatch House

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (330 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 17
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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