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[24] Finished drawing for the saloon (now the library), c1767
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/14
Purpose
[24] Finished drawing for the saloon (now the library), c1767
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with a coved ceiling, and with three windows on the south wall, and a central aedicular door on the north wall opposite, surmounted by a rectangular overdoor panel containing an anthemion and rinceaux, and flanked by apses screened by two Corinthian columns each, and with panels of rinceaux in the semi-domes. The east and west end walls each have a central tabernacle chimneypiece, surmounted by festoons, and flanked by doors with capricci overdoors
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for finishing the Saloon at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire the Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- c1767
datable to c1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes of grey, pink and yellow within a single ruled border on laid paper (704 x 523)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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