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  • image SM Adam volume 22/254

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/254

Purpose

[10] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with tapering pilaster stiles, ornamented with vines, and surmounted by enclosed paterae, and masks in the capitals, with a fluted lining, with enclosed urns in the corners, and with a frieze ornamented with wreaths, crossed by thyrsi, and swags, and with a tablet containing a half putto, flanked by rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Dining room at Newby

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. 23
Harris, 2001, p. 357
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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