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  • image SM Adam volume 22/260

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/260

Purpose

[30] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with an architrave ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and a frieze ornamented with calyx, peltoid shields, festoons, and rinceaux, and with pencil-drawn annotations to the right-hand side showing a console stile

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Hall Chimney Piece at Newby

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 23
Stillman, 1966, p. 72
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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