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[14] Finished drawing for the music room, c1765-66, executed with minor alterations
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/118
Purpose
[14] Finished drawing for the music room, c1765-66, executed with minor alterations
Aspect
Laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room with three windows, surmounted by curtain cornices, and two rectangular pier glasses on the north wall, and with a chimneypiece on the south wall opposite, with a rectangular figurative overmantel, and flanked by large rectangular capricci, and in each of the east and west walls is a door, surmounted by an overdoor square grotesque panel, a large central rectangular capriccio, and another rectangular grotesque panel, and the room has a frieze of alternating urns and enclosed rosettes, connected by festoons
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for finishing the Musick Room at Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1765-66
datable to 1765-66
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes on laid paper (529 x 586)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly George Richardson, but it appears that the painted panels are in the hand of another draughtsman unknown, possibly Antonio Zucchi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, pp. 70 and 80
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, pp. 70 and 80
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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