[22] Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1772, thought to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Soho Square, number 20, London: designs for the house and interior for the Hon. Baron Grant, 1771-72 (27)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1772, thought to have been executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/294

Purpose

[22] Design for a chimneypiece for the eating room, 1772, thought to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with fluted pilaster stiles, with capitals of acanthus and calyx, and with a frieze ornamented with alternating urns and masks enclosed within wreaths, and with an x-shaped arrangement of thyrsi(?) accompanied by a wreath in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Mr. Baron Grants Eaing room Chimney / Baron Grants Eating room Chimney (in pencil)

Signed and dated

29/08/1772
Adelphi August 29th / 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (407 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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