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Alternative designs and a record drawing for a chimneypieces for the drawing room, 1762, unexecuted (6)

Notes

None of these designs for the drawing room chimneypiece were executed.

The executed chimneypiece was carved by Benjamin Carter, and has fluted Corinthian engaged column stiles, a lining containing drops and a lintel of festoons and enclosed rosettes, surmounted by a frieze of anthemia and arabesques.

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Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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Contents of Alternative designs and a record drawing for a chimneypieces for the drawing room, 1762, unexecuted (6)