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Reference number

SM Adam volume 22/191

Purpose

[61] Record drawing for a chimneypiece for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767

Aspect

Elevation of a chimneypiece with engaged fluted Ionic column stiles, and the lining is ornamented with anthemia, and calyx, with a frieze ornamented with winged griffons and rinceaux, with a figurative tablet, and with enclosed patera in the capitals
  • image SM Adam volume 22/191

Scale

bar scale of 1 1/2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

Chimney Piece for the Gentlemans principal Dressing room / at Harewood (all in the hand of William Adam) and some dimensions (in pen and pencil)

Signed and dated

  • 1767
    1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (405 x 289)

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

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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