[18] Design for the chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70; it is not known if this design was executed

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    - The Adelphi, London: designs for a speculative complex built by William Adam & Co., 1768-84 (168)
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        Number 2, Royal Terrace
        Designs for the chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70; it is not known if this design was executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/29

Purpose

[18] Design for the chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with console stiles, ornamented with laurel leaf tips, acanthus leaves, and drops of calyx, with runs in the capitals, a fluted lining, and a frieze ornamented with lozenges enclosing rosettes, alternating with double anthemia, and with a tablet containing an urn filled with foliage, and supported by rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

River Front Body of Building / Chimney Piece for the Front Drawing Room 3rd. House / All Statuary / Front Drawing room (in pencil) and some measurements given

Signed and dated

c1769-70
datable to c1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (288 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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