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[3] Design for a chimneypiece for Mrs Nutt's dressing room, 1775, not known to have been executed
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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.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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