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  • image SM Adam volume 23/71

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/71

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1775, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with figure-of-eight wreaths, enclosing masks, winged sphinxes, and urns surmounted by anthemia, and with a tablet containing an anthemion flanked by winged half-horses, and with ox slulls in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Drawing room For John Nutt Esqr

Signed and dated

  • 06/05/1775
    Adelphi / 6t. May 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
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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