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  • image SM Adam volume 23/134

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.

Level

Drawing

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

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