[16] Design of a herm and lamp for the passage leading to the dining room and drawing room, c1780, executed with minor alterations

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  - Byram Hall, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire: designs for the interior of the house for Sir John Ramsden, 4th Baronet, c.1780 (17)
    - Design for a herm and lamp for the passage leading to the dining room and drawing room, c1780, executed with minor alterations

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 17/68

Purpose

[16] Design of a herm and lamp for the passage leading to the dining room and drawing room, c1780, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Elevation of a lamp on a herm pedestal, with the tapered column decorated with a drop composed of a lion mask, calyx, diminishing figure-of-eight oak leaves, enclosed rosette, peltoid shield and tubular flower, and with a capital containing an elliptical enclosed rosette and a festoon of husk. The herm is surmounted by a glass lamp

Scale

bar scale of 2 ½ inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Term & lamp for the passage leading to the Dining room & Drawing room at Byram / 68 / Scale of / Feet

Signed and dated

c1780
datable to c1780

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (420 x 275)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Literature

Boton, 1922, Volume II, p. 307, Index p. 5
Harris, 1963, p. 48
Spiers, 1979, p. 30, Index, p. 5
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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