[9] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece, possibly for the front drawing room, 1766

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Pall Mall, number 34 (later 25), London: executed designs for the house, for Andrew Millar, 1765-66 (11)
      - Finished drawing for a chimneypiece, possibly for the front drawing room, 1766 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/168

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece, possibly for the front drawing room, 1766

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with Ionic pilaster stiles, ornamented with calyx enclosed within figure-of-eight wreaths, with a frieze ornamented with rosettes, fluting festoons, and wreaths, and with a tablet containing an urn supported by a tripod pedestal, and flanked by griffons with rinceau tails, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for Andrew Millar Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) / (and in pencil) For Andrew Millar Esqr / Sir Ellis Cunliffe [ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ] his Drawing room

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (423 x 271)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 43
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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