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[16] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Betty Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/160
Purpose
[16] Design for a chimneypiece for Lady Betty Mackenzie's dressing room, 1766, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Doric pilaster stiles, ornamented with drops of calyx hung from rosettes, with a frieze ornamented with festoons hung from bows, and with pencil-drawn rosettes, and with rosettes in the capitals
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for Lady Betty Mackenzie's Dressing Room / E (in pencil) / About 17£ 2s 9d (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1766
1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (430 x 278)
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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