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  • image SM Adam volume 24/19

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/19

Purpose

[9] Design for the chimneypiece for the front parlour, c1769-70, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with console stiles, ornamented with acanthus leaves, laurel leaf tips, anthemia, and drops of calyx, and with a frieze containing guilloche enclosing rosettes and calyx, and with a central tablet containing a globe flanked by half putti

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

D.Y. River Front / Chimney Piece for the Front Parlor 1st House / Wood / Statuary / A (in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • c1769-70
    datable to c1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (304 x 267)

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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