[89] Finished drawing for the great staircase, 1769, 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 great staircase, 1769, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 35/16

Purpose

[89] Finished drawing for the great staircase, 1769, as executed

Aspect

Plan and laid out wall elevations for a three-storey, cantilevered, half-turn staircase, with walls ornamented with panels of rinceaux, trophies, and figurative panels. There is a tripartite window, surmounted by a Venetian window in the upper register of the west wall, and the other walls contain arched doors, aedicular doors, and doors within relieving arches

Scale

bar scale of 1/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design for finishing the Great Staircase at Gawthorp House in Yorkshire The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire

Signed and dated

1769
datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, wash and pink wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (848 x 653)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

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

Level

Drawing

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