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  • image SM Adam volume 11/151

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/151

Purpose

[59] Design for the ceiling for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 11/150 but quarter colour-washed

Scale

1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Principal Dressing room at Gawthorpe House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including terre verte within a single ruled border on laid paper (543 x 463)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, p. 153
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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