[8] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1769, not known to have been executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Hertford Street, number 10 (now Sheridan House), London: designs for interior decoration for Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne, 1769-71 (15)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1769, not known to have been executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/265

Purpose

[8] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1769, not known to have been executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with tapering pilaster stiles, with vines in the shafts, and capitals containing enclosed rosettes, surmounted by bacchic masks, and with enclosed urns in the lining, a fluted frieze, and with a tablet containing a half putto flanked by rinceaux (underwritten in pencil)

Scale

bar scale of 1 2/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dining Parlor at General Burgoyne's / (and in pencil) Anti room / Vase / Husk and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 292)

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.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Robert Adam's London, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 30 November 2016 - 11 March 2017

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

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