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[4] Working drawing for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1767
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 18/59
Purpose
[4] Working drawing for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1767
Aspect
Elevation of a detail of a chimneypiece, with spirally fluted column stiles and acanthus capitals; flanking an architrave ornamented with guilloche enclosing rosettes; around a cusp-shaped lining ornamented with laurel leaves and waterleaf; and with a frieze ornamented with alternating double anthemia and lozenges enclosing stars, flanked by compartments containing drops of calyx, and with an ornamental mantel (verso) a rough pencil-drawn wall elevation
Scale
full size
Inscribed
rough pencil calculations
Signed and dated
- 1767
datable to 1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including terre verte, red and yellow on laid paper (1021 x 622)
Hand
Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Giuseppe Sacco
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Giuseppe Sacco
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
Stillman, 1966, p. 111
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 111
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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