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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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