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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/17

Purpose

[39] Finished drawing for Edwin Lascelles's bed room (now the east bedroom), 1766

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room with a tripartite window, divided by Ionic columns on the north wall, and on the south wall opposite is a chimneypiece, with a door to the left. There is a single window on the east wall, and a door, off centre on the west wall, and the room has a frieze of urns, and double calyx

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of Mr Lascelles own Dressing Room at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire / (and in the hand of William Adam) Mr Lascelles Bed Room / at Gawthorpe, the Seat / of Edwin Lascelles Esqr and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    datable to 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (602 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith, additional title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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