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Reference number

SM volume 42/7

Purpose

Designs for two chimney-pieces and frames

Aspect

Upper elevation has a bay-leaf festoon with crossed ribbon hung between roundels decorating the frieze and alternatively a panel pilaster, and a leaf drop decorating the jambs; the incompletely drawn overmantel frame has panelled pilasters. Lower elevation has a leaf and ribbon festoon to the frieze above a moulded architrave; the sketchy overmantel frame has coin mouldings

Scale

to a scale

Medium and dimensions

Brown pen, pencil, on laid paper with three fold marks (395 x 194)

Hand

unidentified

Verso

Slight drawings including a chimneypiece (drawing pasted at corners)

Watermark

J Whatman

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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