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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/156

Purpose

[91] Alternative design for the soffit to the half landing in the great staircase, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of enclosed rosettes and anthemia, with a central rectangle containing an enclosed patera, framed by four drops of rinceaux, within an oval fluted frame, and with an enclosed rosette in each corner, and the central rectangle is flanked by bordering rectangles containing enclosed rosettes, frame by four drops of rinceaux, within a lozenge-shaped frame, with an enclosed rosette in each corner

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for half pace of Great Staircase at Gawthorpe (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • c1769
    datable to c1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (436 x 256)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
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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