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[4] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/151
Purpose
[4] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with drops of calyx hung from masks in the stiles, an architrave ornamented with anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight acanthus leaves, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes, and festoons hung from bows, and with urns in the capitals, and with rough pencil annotations of mouldings to the right-hand side
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Drawing Room Chimney Piece / for Mr Macken/ Mr Mackenzie Esq (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 265)
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.
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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