[18] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1769

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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)
      - Alternative designs and a record drawing for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1766-1770 (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/178

Purpose

[18] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1769

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with drops of calyx in the stiles, surmounted by scrolls, with a frieze of anthemia, calyx, and rosettes, and a tablet containing a lyre crossed with fluted and trumpets, and with urns in the capitals, as executed with alterations

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Music room at Harewood (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (404 x 292)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 75
Harris, 2001, pp. 149, 349
Harris, 2007, p. 90
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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