[6] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1767

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex: designs for the round drawing room and a rustic cottage for Horace Walpole, 1766-68 (9)
    - Working drawings and finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1767, as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/229

Purpose

[6] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for the round drawing room, 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with spirally fluted column stiles and acanthus capitals; flanking an architrave ornamented with guilloche enclosing rosettes; around a cusp-shaped lining supported by small lotus capital pilasters, and ornamented with laurel and ivy leaves; 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

Scale

2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Honorable Horace Walpole

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including red, terre verte, cerulean blue and Indian yellow on laid paper (405 x 292)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Giuseppe Sacco

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 29
Stillman, 1966, p. 111
Harris, 2001, p. 8
Wilton Ely, 2011, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, 15 October 2009 - 3 January 2010; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 6 March - 4 July 2010
Giving Our Past a Future: The Work of the World Monuments Fund Britain, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 26 October 2012 - 26 January 2013

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