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  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

Preliminary design, design, and finished drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the hall, executed with alterations, 1761 (3)

This chimneypiece was carved by Benjamin and Thomas Carter, though it was executed with a different tablet from that shown. If the overmantel was executed it no longer survives.

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Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

[12] Preliminary design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the hall, executed with alterations, 1761

1761

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 22/24

Drawing

Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

[13] Design for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the hall, executed with alterations, 1761

1761

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 22/23

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Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

[14] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece and overmantel for the hall, executed with alterations, 1761

1761

Adam office hand, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 22/22

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