[22] Record drawing for friezes for the drawing room, dressing room and library, ND, 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
      - Record drawings for friezes, ND, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 53/43 (part)

Purpose

[22] Record drawing for friezes for the drawing room, dressing room and library, ND, as executed

Aspect

Elevation of friezes for the drawing room, dressing room, library and library bookcases. The frieze for the drawing room is composed of urns supported by turned, tripod pedestals, connected by festoons, and alternating with roundels, one being an anthemion within a frame of cable moulding, and the other being a cameo within a frame of cable moulding. The frieze for the dressing room is composed of alternating enclosed paterae of acanthus leaves, and an urn ornamented with a lion mask and gadrooning. The frieze for the library is composed of alternating acanthus leaves and fluting. The frieze for the library bookcases is composed of anthemia, supported by rinceaux and rosettes, and alternating with fans hung from the same rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of ¾ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Drawing room / Dressing room / Library / Bookcase frieze (all in pen and underwritten in pencil)

Signed and dated

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (291 x 470)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly James Adam

Watermark

VDL V and fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 24
Sands, 2012, Volume 2, p. 180
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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