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  • image SM Adam volume 23/72

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/72

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece for Mrs Nutt's dressing room, 1775, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with tapering fluted pilasters, supported by shaped pedestals, and surmounted by segmental frames, ornamented with ram masks, and enclosing anthemia, cameos, and short drops of calyx, and with a tablet containing an enclosed rosette, flanked by cornucopia, and with lions in the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for Mrs. Nutt's Dressing Room.

Signed and dated

  • 1775
    1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 293)

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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