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  • image SM Adam volume 23/150

Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/150

Purpose

[15] Design of a chimneypiece for the breakfast room, c1780

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with pilaster stiles ornamented with drops of ox mask, husks, ribbon, enclosed rosette and festoons of beading, with capitals containing enclosed rosettes, and in the frieze there is a tablet containing a tazza with sphinxes and flora

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney piece for the Breakfast room at Byram for Sir John Ramsden Bart / Back Draw[ing] room / 4 Houses [?] / No. 3

Signed and dated

  • c1780
    datable to c1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (287 x 405)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 5
Spiers, 1979, p. 42, Index, p. 5
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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