[79] Variant design for a chimneypiece for the library, 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)
      - Variant designs for the library chimneypiece, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/40

Purpose

[79] Variant design for a chimneypiece for the library, 1774; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with fluted stiles, with a frieze ornamented with a central medallion containing an urn, and flanked by festoons and ram masks, and with urns on pedestals in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Library at Lord Stanley's in Grosvenor Square / (and in pencil) This to be plain / [ _ _ _ ] / Black / finishe[cropped] / Statu[cropped] / Moulding round Mantle / to be plain

Signed and dated

1774
1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 291)

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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