[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the parlour in the Governor's House, 1776, executed with alterations

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  - Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London: designs for chimneypieces for the Governor's house, for the Board of Commissioners, 1776 (2)
    - Designs for chimneypieces for the dining room and parlour, 1776, unexecuted and executed with alterations (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/81

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the parlour in the Governor's House, 1776, executed with alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles, ornamented with ram masks, fluting, and a festoon and figure-of-eight arrangement of bell flowers, enclosing an urn, and with a frieze containing enclosed anthemia, alternating with double calyx, connected by segmental bands of ribbon, and with 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 (407 x 292)

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

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