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[110] Design for the chimneypiece for the dining room, c1769-70; it is not known if this design was executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 24/16
Purpose
[110] Design for the chimneypiece for the dining room, c1769-70; it is not known if this design was executed
Aspect
Elevation of a chimneypiece, with profile volute stiles, ornamented with rosettes and calyx, and a lining ornamented with waterleaf, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals, a frieze of rosettes enclosed within connected roundels of double calyx and acanthus leaves, and with a tablet containing an urn, supported by arabesques, and containing foliage
Scale
bar scale of 1 ½ inches to 1 foot
Inscribed
East Wing D:Y: / Chimney Piece for the Dining Room on pair of Stairs 8th House / R: Front / and for the / 10t. House / Front Parlor / Statuary Marble / Wood / Statuary / Statuary Slab about 2ft. 4in 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 (325 x 274)
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