[34] Design for a overmantel tablet for the library (now the old library), 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)
      - Designs for the chimneypiece and overmantel tablet for the library (now the old library), 1766 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 23/256

Purpose

[34] Design for a overmantel tablet for the library (now the old library), 1766

Aspect

Elevation of a figurative tablet, showing a sacrificial scene, including winged figures standing behind a seated figure, and a procession of people leading a bull, as executed

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

(verso) 12 / Library Tablet / Edwin Lascelles Esqr

Signed and dated

c1766
datable to c1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and sepia wash on laid paper (532 x 183)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Antonio Zucchi

Watermark

XDB&C within a cartouche

Literature

Mauchline, 1992, p. 71
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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