[66] Design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Grosvenor Square, number 23 (number 26 from 1862), London: designs for interior decoration and furnishings for Lord Edward Stanley, (later 12th Earl of Derby), 1773-75 (94)
      - Alternative designs and record drawing for the chimneypiece for the ante room to the eating parlour, 1774; it is not known if these designs were executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/34

Purpose

[66] Design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with moulding, and enclosed rosettes, and with a frieze ornamented with double calyx connected by festoons of beading which support birds alternating with enclosed rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Anti room Chimney Parlor Story at Lord Stanley's / in Grosvenor Square.

Signed and dated

1774
1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (408 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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