[3] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, c1771, unexecuted

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    - Chandos House, Queen Anne Street, number 1 (now number 2), London: designs for interior decoration, built and decorated as a speculation by Robert and James Adam, 1769-72 (8)
      - Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, c1771, unexecuted (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/65

Purpose

[3] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the first drawing room, c1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with pilaster stiles, ornamented with anthemia enclosed within figure-of-eight ribbons in the shafts, and calyx in the capitals, with enclosed rosettes in the capitals, and a frieze of enclosed cables and darts, and with a lining ornamented with drops of calyx and rosettes, which extends into the frieze forming a tablet, containing an oval medallion

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Front Drawing room: Stone front House Q. A: Street and some measurements given

Signed and dated

1771
datable to 1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (396 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 36
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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