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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/227

Purpose

[2] Design for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1766

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with spirally fluted column stiles and acanthus capitals; flanking an architrave ornamented with guilloche enclosing rosettes, and lozenges; around a cusp-shaped lining supported by small engaged spirally fluted columns, and ornamented with panels of rosettes, and with calyx in the spandrels; and with a frieze ornamented with square and rectangular compartments containing lozenges and guilloche, enclosing medallions and rosettes, and with an ornamental mantel

Scale

bar scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Honble Horace Walpole

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 321)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Giuseppe Sacco

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
Beard, 1976, p. 46
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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