[18] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, 1766; it is not known if this design was 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 a chimneypiece for an unknown room, 1766; it is not known if this design was executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/223

Purpose

[18] Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for an unknown room, 1766; it is not known if this design was executed

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with drops of foliage hung from lion masks in the stiles, surmounted by consoles; with a frieze of rosettes and festoons hung from bows; and with enclosed paterae in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 3/10 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimneypiece for Sir Rowland Winn Baronet (in the hand of William Adam) / (and in feint pencil) Sir Rowland Winn / The frieze to be in the / [ _ _ _ _ _ ] room only at Nostell / in [illegible]ed as the other / chimney

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (443 x 290

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, p. 184
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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