[37] Design for a chimneypiece for the study (now the China room), 1768

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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)
      - Design for a chimenypiece for the study (now the China room), 1768 (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/183

Purpose

[37] Design for a chimneypiece for the study (now the China room), 1768

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece, scroll stiles, ornamented with beading, a frieze ornamented with an urn and two vases enclosed within wreaths, and connected by festoons, and with enclosed rosettes in the capitals

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Study Chimney Piece at Harewood (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1768
1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (405 x 291)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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