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[106] Design for the chimneypiece for the dining room, c1769-70, executed at number 5 Royal Terrace
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/14
Purpose
[106] Design for the chimneypiece for the dining room, c1769-70, executed at number 5 Royal Terrace
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with stiles ornamented with drops composed of fans, anthemia, figure-of-eight wreaths enclosing calyx, drops of calyx, bows, and husks, and with oval enclosed rosettes in the capitals, attended by crossed sword and arrow, and with a lining ornamented with anthemia enclosed within trefoils, a frieze ornamented with urns on tripod pedestals connected by festoons, and with a peltoid shield in between, and with a tablet containing two birds (eagles?) supporting a socle, and flanked by festoons and enclosed rosettes
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
East Wing D:Y: / Chimney Piece for the Dining Room one pair of Stairs. 7th House / 30 feet front / and for the front / parlor / 6th House / River Front / Statuary marble / Wood / Statuary / Statuary Slab about 2.6 wide and some measurements given in pen and pencil
Signed and dated
- 1769-70
datable to 1769-70
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (345 x 275)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 33
Rowan, 2007, p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Rowan, 2007, p. 50
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Vaulting Ambition: The Adam Brothers, Contractors to the Metropolis in the Reign of George III, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 14 September 2007 - 12 January 2008; The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, 19 April - 24 May 2008; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 24 October - 13 December 2008
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk