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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/196

Purpose

[79] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1770-71

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with volute stiles, ornamented with ram masks, a fluted lining, a frieze of anthemia, and lozenges of beading containing enclosed rosettes, a tablet with urns on on pedestals, flanking a medallion containing a man feeding an eagle, and with fluting in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 5/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the first Drawing Room at Harewood House

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, p. 140
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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