[23] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1766, as executed

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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)
      - Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1766, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/181

Purpose

[23] Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1766, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with rosettes enclosed by wreaths in the stiles, surmounted by scrolled consoles, with a frieze of enclosed rosettes, crossed swords, and swags, and with a tablet containing a tazza and festoons

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Dining Room at Gawthorp

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash (407 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 91
Harris, 2001, p. 148
Leach and Pevsner, 2009, p. 303
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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