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[15] Design for a chimneypiece for Mr Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/154
Purpose
[15] Design for a chimneypiece for Mr Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with an architrave ornamented with egg and dart, a frieze containing pencil-drawn fluting, and with a tablet containing an enclosed rosette, flanked by urns on turned pedestals, connected by a festoon, and a pencil-drawn annotation to the right-hand side, showing the motifs in the tablet repeated as if in a frieze
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for Mr Mackenzie's Dressing Room / B Parlor (in pencil) / Front House DY (in pencil) / Bed Chamr (in pencil) / Length & Breadth of the / Marble Slab to be _ Feet / the Slab to be as broad as / can be / About 14£ (in pencil) and some measurement given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (427 x 274)
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
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