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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/201

Purpose

[103] Preliminary design for the chimneypiece for the gallery, 1777

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with robed caryatid stiles, each with one arm held aloft and supporting a festoons, with a frieze of enclosed calyx and tubular flowers, with a tablet containing an urn, flanked by half putti, and rinceaux, and with enclosed oval rosettes in the capitals

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

3d Design of a Chimney Piece for the Gallery at Harewood (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

  • 1777
    Adelphi / 11t June 1777

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 291)

Hand

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

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966. p. 103
Mauchline, 1992, p. 80
Harris, 2001, pp. 146, 149
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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