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  • image SM Adam volume 22/152

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/152

Purpose

[6] Design for a chimneypiece for a bedchamber, 1766, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with volute stiles in profile, surmounted by masks, with an architrave ornamented with egg and dart, and laurel leaf tips, and with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes, alternating with urns supported by turned pedestals, and connected by festoons

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mr Mackenzie (in pencil) / (and in the hand of William Adam) Bed Chamber / for Mr Mackenzie

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    [cropped]t Adam 1766 / 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 258)

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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