[5] Finished drawing for a design for the house, 1759-1762

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 alterations to All Saints Church and Harewood House, 1759-1762 (8)
      - Finished drawings for a design for the house, 1759-1762 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/9

Purpose

[5] Finished drawing for a design for the house, 1759-1762

Aspect

Plan of the attic storey of a house with a nine-bay central block, with the central three bays slightly projection on the principal (north) and garden (south) fronts, and flanked by the roofs of links containing semicircular courts, and three-bay pavilions

Scale

bar scale of 1/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Plan of the Bed Chamber of Attick Storey 14 feet high / Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire, the Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esqr (in the hand of William Adam) / Bed Cham'r / Bed Room / Landing of the Stairs / Bed Room / Bed Cham'r / Closet / Bed Room / Closet / Bed Cham'r / Bed Chamber / Landing of the Back Stairs / Closet / Passage Lighted by a Sky Light / Water Closet / Bed Closet / Bed Closet / Great Stair / antichamber / Dressing room / Dressing Closet / Bed Chamb'r / Bed Chamb'r / Closet / Bed Chamb'r / Dressing room / Alcove / Bed / Bed Chamber / Lumber Room / Bed Cham'r / Closet / Closet / Bed Cham'r / Lumber Room and dimensions given (verso) Mr Lascelles / Gawthorpe house

Signed and dated

1759-62
Rt. Adam Architect date range: 1759-62

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (921 x 577)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, p. 134
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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