[17] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1766

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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 22/177

Purpose

[17] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1766

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with scroll stiles, a frieze ornamented with anthemia, and calyx, and a tablet containing a lyre crossed with flutes and trumpets, and with rosettes in the capitals, and with pencil-drawn annotations showing the scroll of the stile upside down

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Music Room at Gawthorpe (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (408 x 298)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, and title inscription in the hand of William Adam, pencil-drawn annotations in the hand of Robert 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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