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  • image SM Adam volume 24/21

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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