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  • image SM Adam volume 22/151

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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