[82] Finished drawing for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1766-69, executed with alterations

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  - Harewood House, Yorkshire: designs for alterations to the church and house; for the interior decoration; and for a greenhouse and gateway for Edwin Lascelles, 1759-1782 (121)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the hall, music room, saloon, dining room, gallery, library, bed rooms, dressing rooms, great staircase and portico soffit, 1765-1778 (107)
      - Finished drawing for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1766-69, executed with alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/11

Purpose

[82] Finished drawing for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1766-69, executed with alterations

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations, of a rectangular room, with a coved ceiling ornamented with fluting, enclosed rosettes and anthemia, lozenges of calyx, winged sphinxes, and medallions, with three arched windows surmounted by voluted curtain cornices, and four rectangular pier glasses on the south wall, and on the north wall opposite is a central chimneypiece, flanked by doors, and with a single door on the southern end of the east and west walls, and the chimneypiece, doors, and walls have friezes of anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts

Scale

bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Library at Gawthorpe the Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esqr (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1766-69
date range: 1766-69

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes within a single ruled border on laid paper (906 x 642)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 70
Harris, 2001, p. 143
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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