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  • image SM Adam volume 22/45

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/45

Purpose

[43] Design for a chimneypiece for the drawing room, 1762, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan, elevation and profile of a chimneypiece with Corinthian pilaster stiles, a lining of fluting and acanthus leaves with a central wreath enclosing a crescent, a frieze of festoons and wreaths, and a blank tablet

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/4 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Drawing room at Sion and some measurements given in pencil

Signed and dated

  • 1762
    1762

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 28
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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