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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/21

Purpose

[49] Finished drawing for Mrs Lascelles' dressing room, 1766

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with two windows on the east wall, and a central chimneypiece on the west wall opposite, with a door to the right-hand side, and the north and south walls each have a single door at their eastern end, and the chimneypiece, doors, and room all have friezes of enclosed acanthus leaves

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Section of the Lady's Dressing Room at Gawthorp House

Signed and dated

  • 1766
    Robt Adam Archt / 1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (584 x 522)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Notes

Mrs Lascelles's dressing room is on the east front of the house between Edwin Lascelles's dressing room and a bed chamber in the south-east corner of the house (presumably hers).

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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