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  • image SM Adam volume 22/185

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/185

Purpose

[48] Design for a chimneypiece for Edwin Lascelles's dressing room, 1768

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with drops of calyx in the stiles, a frieze of fluting, enclosed patera, and urns, and with enclosed patera in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/5 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the [ _ ] room at Harewood (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1768
    1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (405 x 295)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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