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  • image SM Adam volume 11/159

Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/159

Purpose

[73] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Aspect

Plan as Adam volume 11/158

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the room on the right hand side of the Saloon at Gawthorpe (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1765
    1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (539 x 437)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 82
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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