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[93] Finished drawing for the gallery, 1765-69, 3 walls as executed
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/10
Purpose
[93] Finished drawing for the gallery, 1765-69, 3 walls as executed
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations of a rectangular room, with a central Venetian window, flanked by two windows surmounted by curtain cornices to either side, and four rectangular pier glasses on the west wall, and on the east wall opposite is a chimneypiece, flanked by three sculpture-filled niches surmounted by a rectangular panel of winged griffons, urns, and rinceaux, and a door, surmounted by a figurative overdoor medallion, and with a Venetian window in each of the north and south walls, and the chimneypiece and walls have friezes of anthemia and rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design for finishing the Gallery at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1765-69
date range: 1765-69
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (933 x 614)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, pp. 143, 146
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 2001, pp. 143, 146
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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