[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1773, as executed

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    - 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)
      - Design for the ante room chimneypiece, 1773, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/43

Purpose

[3] Design for a chimneypiece for the ante room, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with narrow engaged fluted columns in the stiles, which support tubular flower-shaped brackets, with a frieze ornamented with a winged griffon and a winged deer, flanking an urn, and with tails of rinceaux, and with oval medallions enclosed within wreaths of beading in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Anti room one pair at Lord Stanley's / in Grosvenor Square / Mr Carter (in pencil) / £59 (in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1773
1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 38
Harris, 2001, p. 362
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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