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[29] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1763, executed with minor alterations
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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