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[6] Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the ante room, 1769, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 22/267
Purpose
[6] Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the ante room, 1769, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with profile volute stiles, supporting female busts, and with a frieze ornamented with ox skulls, urns, and fluting, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals, and the chimneypiece is surmounted by an overmantel, with three roundels, alternating with lozenges enclosing rosettes, and flanked by anthemia, all set within a rectangular frame, flanked by drops of calyx supporting candle branches on each side, and surmounted by a band of Vitruvian scroll, and four urns
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Anti room Chimney Piece at General Burgoyne's and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1769
1769
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (295 x 293)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 40
Draper, 1999, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Draper, 1999, p. 127
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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