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  • image SM Adam volume 22/261

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/261

Purpose

[31] Alternative record drawing for a chimneypiece for the hall, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles, an architrave ornamented with waterleaf, and a frieze with pencil-drawn ox skulls on the left-hand side, and as Adam volume 22/260 on the right-hand side, but with a tablet containing an urn, surmounted by miniature sphinxes

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Hall at Newby / Wynes Hall (in pencil) / [cropped]d f [ _ _ _ _ ] and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (406 x 292)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

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