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  • image SM Adam volume 23/56

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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