Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [81] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1770-71

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 22/195

Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/195

Purpose

[81] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1770-71

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with drops of calyx in the stiles, surmounted by consoles ornamented with ram masks, and with a frieze ornamented with an urn on a pedestal, connected to a roundel by a festoon, and with two other roundels

Scale

bar scale of 1 5/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the first Drawing room at Harewood House. 2d Design (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (411 x 290)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

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

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk