[9] Working drawing for a table slab for the saloon, 1775, as executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)
    - Interior decoration: 1765-76
      - Finished drawing for sideboard tables for the saloon and top hall, and working drawing for the table slab for the saloon, 1775, the design for the saloon as executed; the design for the top hall unexecuted (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 49/42

Purpose

[9] Working drawing for a table slab for the saloon, 1775, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a detail of a segmental table slab, ornamented with a central patera, enclosed within a segmental fan, and a segmental band of enclosed calyx and tubular flowers, encircled by ribbons, festoons of bell flowers, and alternating enclosed rosettes and cameos, and with a border of alternating calyx and anthemia

Scale

full size

Inscribed

for Sir Rowland Winn (in the hand of William Adam) / Slabs for the Salon at Nostel

Signed and dated

12/08/1775
Adelphi August 12t 1775

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink, terre verte, and sepia on laid paper (494 x 655)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Harris, 1963, pp. 51, 71
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, pp. 116-117
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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