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[6] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70, unexecuted
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/21
Purpose
[6] Design for a chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70, unexecuted
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece with moulded stiles, ornamented with drops of calyx hung from masks, and with jugs in the capitals, and a lining of waterflowers, and a frieze of festoons and enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
Chimney Piece for the Drawing room in the end House Body of the Building / All Marble / No. 1. East Corner / on the Terrace. Adelphi / Marble / Marble / Marble / Marble / Marble / Statuary Slab about / 2ft.6 wide and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- c1769-70
datable to c1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (246 x 289)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
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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