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