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  • image SM Adam volume 22/129

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/129

Purpose

[29] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1763, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation and profile of a chimneypiece, with engaged Ionic column stiles, an architrave ornamented with egg and dart, a frieze of anthemia, calyx, and acanthus leaves, with a tablet containing a feint pencil-drawn tazza, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room Chimney Piece at Hatch House and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1763
    1763

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (330 x 291)

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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