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  • image SM Adam volume 22/156

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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