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[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, c1774
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 23/56
Purpose
[1] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, c1774
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles ornamented with acanthus leaves, and with a frieze ornamented with a central enclosed rosette, flanked by rosettes, and festoons hung from bows
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Drawing Room for Matthew Duane Esqr / [cropped]ary (in pencil) and some measurements given in pencil
Signed and dated
- datable to c1774
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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