[9] Finished drawing for the hall, 1765, executed with minor alterations

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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 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 hall, 1765, executed with minor alterations (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/13

Purpose

[9] Finished drawing for the hall, 1765, executed with minor alterations

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations of a rectangular room with engaged Doric columns encircling the interior, surmounted by a Doric frieze of fret and ox skulls. On each of the end walls (north and south) is a central door, surmounted by a segmental relief panel containing a military trophy, and within a relieving arch, and flanked by windows at one end, and by sculpture-filled niches at the other. From the plan it is apparent that the door flanked by niches is recessed, and within a coffered arch. The side walls (east and west) each have a central chimneypiece, and a rectangular painted overmantel flanked by square-headed niches, all surmounted by panels of festoons, and this is flanked by doors, with figurative roundel overdoors

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the Hall at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire. the Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1765
datable to 1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled on border on laid paper (732 x 616)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Lees-Milne, 1947, p. 93
Harris, 2007, p. 86
Leach and Pevsner, 2009, p. 302
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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