[21] Finished drawing for the dining room, 1765-66, as executed

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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)
      - Finished drawing for the dining room, 1765-66, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/12

Purpose

[21] Finished drawing for the dining room, 1765-66, as executed

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with three windows within relieving arches, and two oval pier glasses on the north wall, and with a large apse in the south wall, embracing a chimneypiece, with a figurative overmantel roundel, and two niches, and flanked by doors, with rectangular figurative panels in the upper register. The east and west walls each have two doors, and figurative roundels and rectangular panels in the upper register

Scale

bar scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the Musick Room / The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1765-66
datable to 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (599 x 515)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith

Watermark

LVG and a fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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