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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/149

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the salon, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation and profile of a chimneypiece with fluted volute stiles, a frieze ornamented with octagonal coffering enclosing rosettes, with a tablet containing an enclosed rosette flanked by peltoid shields, and urns on tripod pedestals connected by festoons, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Mr Mackenzie's Salon (in the hand of William Adam and underwritten in pencil) / For Mackenzie [ _ _ _ _ _ ] (in feint pencil)and some measurements in feint pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 277)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
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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