[14] Preliminary design for the niche head in the hall, c1771-72, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)
    - Interior decoration: 1765-76
      - Preliminary designs and finished drawings for a ceiling and niche head for the top hall, c1766-72, Adam volumes 52/92 and 11/230 as executed (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 52/92

Purpose

[14] Preliminary design for the niche head in the hall, c1771-72, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a detail of a niche head, ornamented with a band of rosettes enclosed within lozenge-shaped frames, and drops of calyx forming lozenges; with a band of Vitruvian scroll, a band of rosettes, bows and festoons, another band of Vitruvian scroll, and a band of oval paterae enclosed within hexagons

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Nich head Sir Rowland Winns Hall and some measurements given (verso) Sketch at / Northampton / Friday evening

Signed and dated

c1771-72
datable to c1771-72

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (212 x 197)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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