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[32] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1780, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/134
Purpose
[32] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1780, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with engaged column stiles with lotus leaf capitals, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes, alternating with ox skulls connected by festoons of beading, and with smoking urns on tripod pedestals in the capitals, and with a pencil-drawn annotation across the right-hand stile showing a plan of that engaged column
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Chimney Piece for the Hall at Mamhead / Hall Chimney Mamhead (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 24/01/1780
Ade[lphi cropped] / 24t Jan[cropped] / 1780
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (407 x 292)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 22
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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