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[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the front parlour, 1774
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/55
Purpose
[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the front parlour, 1774
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of calyx hung from rosettes, with a frieze ornamented with fluting, a central tablet containing an urn, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Front Parlor, for Matthew Duane Esquire (underwritten in pencil) / Statuary (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- 1774.
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (291 x 464)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 54
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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