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  • image SM Adam volume 22/171

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/171

Purpose

[8] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1766-67, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops of calyx, with a frieze ornamented with enclosed rosettes, bows, and festoons, with a mantel ornamented with dentils, and with urns in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for Lord Clifford's Dining Room (in pen) / E (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (316 x 266)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 30
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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

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