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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/80

Purpose

[1] Design for a chimneypiece, possibly for the dining room in the Governor's House, 1776, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles, ornamented with acanthus leaves, and with a frieze ornamented with connected hexagons enclosing rosettes, with a tablet containing an enclosed rosette, flanked by winged sphinxes, and with oval enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1 /2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Governors House at Chelsea and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1776
    1776

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (408 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
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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