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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
  • image SM Adam volume 22/160

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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