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Reference number

SM Adam volume 24/7

Purpose

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

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with plain stiles, a lining ornamented with laurel leaf tips, and a fluted frieze ornamented with alternating jogs and oval enclosed rosettes, and a mantel ornamented with enclosed segmental rosettes, and unlobed acanthus leaves

Scale

bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

East Wing D.Y. / Chimney Piece for the Front Parlour 4th. House / and for the / Back Parlor / 6t House / River front / Opening 4.0 / 3.8 high / Veined Marble / Wood / Veined Marble / Veined Slab about 2ft. 4in wide / 2pr 2:A:s: (in red pen) / Back bed room 2 pair / stone [cropped] and some measurements given

Signed and dated

  • 1769-70
    datable to 1769-70

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and red pen on laid paper (322 x 272)

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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