[33] Design for the chimneypiece for the library (now the old library), 1766

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Harewood House, Yorkshire: designs for alterations to the church and house; for the interior decoration; and for a greenhouse and gateway for Edwin Lascelles, 1759-1782 (121)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the hall, music room, saloon, dining room, gallery, library, bed rooms, dressing rooms, great staircase and portico soffit, 1765-1778 (107)
      - Designs for the chimneypiece and overmantel tablet for the library (now the old library), 1766 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/182

Purpose

[33] Design for the chimneypiece for the library (now the old library), 1766

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, with rosettes enclosed by guilloche, and with calyx in the stiles and part of the frieze, and the stiles are flanked by volutes, and the frieze is also composed of a band of fluting, and with a figurative tablet, and patera in the capitals, unexecuted

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Chimney Piece for the Library at Gawthorp

Signed and dated

1766
1766

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (407 x 293)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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