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[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, executed with alterations
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/268
Purpose
[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, 1769, executed with alterations
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles, ornamented with acanthus leaves, above masks, and drops composed of bows, urns, peltoid shields, and calyx, and with drops of calyx and egg and dart in the lining, and with a frieze ornamented with fluting and beading, with urns in the capitals, and with a tablet containing alternating urns supported by calyx and arabesques, and double calyx, connected by festoons
Scale
bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Drawing room at General Burgoyne's and a feint, illegible pencil inscription along the top
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (406 x 291)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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