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  - Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)
    - Interior decoration: 1765-76

Finished drawing for sideboard tables for the saloon and top hall, and working drawing for the table slab for the saloon, 1775, the design for the saloon as executed; the design for the top hall unexecuted (2)

Adam volume 17/28 shows designs for pier tables intended for the saloon and top hall. The design for the top hall was not executed, but that for the saloon was executed as a pair by Richter and Bartoli in accordance with Adam’s design. The tables survive in situ.

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Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)

[8] Finished drawing for sideboard tables for the saloon and top hall, 1775, the design for the saloon as executed; the design for the top hall unexecuted

Adelphi / 17t June 1775

Adam office hand, probably Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 17/28

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Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)

[9] Working drawing for a table slab for the saloon, 1775, as executed

Adelphi August 12t 1775

Adam office hand, probably Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 49/42

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