[51] Design for a chimneypiece for the bedchamber, 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)
      - Design for the bedchamber chimneypiece, February 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/50

Purpose

[51] Design for a chimneypiece for the bedchamber, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles, ornamented with urns supported by pedestals, enclosed within rectangular frames, and with a frieze ornamented with fluting, and an enclosed rosette flanked by foliage, and with masks, flanking an enclosed rosettes, connected by festoons, in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Bed Chamber at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / Chimney Piece for the Bed Chamber (in pencil) / Mr Carter has [cropped] (in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

18/02/1774
Adelphi / 18t. Febry 1774.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (356 x 271)

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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