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  • image SM Adam volume 24/37

Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/37

Purpose

[47] Design for the chimneypiece for the front drawing room, c1769-70, executed with minor alterations at 3 Royal Terrace

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with profile volute stiles, ornamented with rosettes and calyx, and with an oval enclosed rosette in the capitals, a lining of waterleaf, a fluted frieze, and a tablet containing an enclosed mask attended by crossed sword and quiver, flanked by festoons hung from bows, and trophies

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Front Drawing Room 6th House and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • c1769-70
    datable to c1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (316 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

IV

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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