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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/240

Purpose

[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1768, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of calyx hung from masks, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes alternating with bows supporting festoons, and with urns in the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Drawing Room at His Grace The Duke of Beaufort's / House in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) Front Drawing ro[cropped] / for Mr Harley / Drawing room / wing front [cropped] / + / Marble front and measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
Roscoe, 2009, p. 217
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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