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[8] Design for a chimneypiece for a bedroom, 1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/156
Purpose
[8] Design for a chimneypiece for a bedroom, 1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with Doric pilaster stiles, ornamented with drops of calyx hung from rosettes, with a frieze ornamented with peltoid shields, and festoons, and with a tablet containing an anthemion flanked by rinceaux, and with rosettes in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Mr Mackenzie (in pencil) / Bed Chamber / for Mr Mackenzie / Veind Marble (in pencil) / (and in feint pencil) [ _ _ _ _ ] & frieze Veind / Stone Coving / Veind slab and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 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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