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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/197

Purpose

[88] Design for a chimneypiece for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1771

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with drops including calyx, and peltoid shields in the stiles, surmounted by consoles ornamented with ram masks, with a fluted lining, and with a frieze ornamented with rosettes, and urns on pedestals connected by festoons, and with enclosed patera in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 5/8 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the first Drawing room at Harewood / 1st Design (all in the hand of William Adam) / 2d (in pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (406 x 291)

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. 144
Leach and Pevsner, 2009, p. 303
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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