[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1768, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 5, London: executed designs for two chimneypieces for the 5th Duke of Beaufort, 1768 (2)
      - Designs for a chimneypieces for the drawing room and dining room, 1768, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/241

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1768, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with laurel leaves, and below are acanthus leaves, and figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing rosettes, with a fluted lining, a frieze ornamented with enclosed oval rosettes, accompanied by crossed swords, and flanked by swags, and with a tablet containing a tazza flanked by festoons

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Dining Room at His Grace The Duke of Beaufort's / House in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) Drawing ro[cropped] / End house [ _ _ _ cropped] / Building [ _ _ cropped] and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

1768
1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 291)

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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