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[49] Finished drawing for Mrs Lascelles' dressing room, 1766
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- Robert and James Adam office drawings
Reference number
SM Adam volume 35/21
Purpose
[49] Finished drawing for Mrs Lascelles' dressing room, 1766
Aspect
Plan and laid out wall elevations for a rectangular room, with two windows on the east wall, and a central chimneypiece on the west wall opposite, with a door to the right-hand side, and the north and south walls each have a single door at their eastern end, and the chimneypiece, doors, and room all have friezes of enclosed acanthus leaves
Scale
bar scale of 1/3 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Section of the Lady's Dressing Room at Gawthorp House
Signed and dated
- 1766
Robt Adam Archt / 1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (584 x 522)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
Notes
Mrs Lascelles's dressing room is on the east front of the house between Edwin Lascelles's dressing room and a bed chamber in the south-east corner of the house (presumably hers).
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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