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  • image SM Adam volume 22/270

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/270

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for Mrs Campbell's dressing room, 1769

Aspect

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

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for Mrs. Campbell's Dressing Room. and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (425 x 270)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 4
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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