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[79] Alternative design for a chimneypiece for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1770-71
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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)
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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.
Harris, 2001, p. 140
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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