- Title:
Headfort House, Ireland: Section of the Staircase
- Former Title(s):
Headfort House. Staircase, Side Section
- Additional Title(s):
Section of one side of the Staircase next the Hall
- Date:
- 1771 or 1772
- Medium:
- Graphite, gray wash, pen and black and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (54 x 36.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center; "Section of one side of the Staircase next the Hall"; in pen and brown ink, lower center, bar scale labeled; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "7"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.798
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | balustrades | chariots (ancient vehicles) | doors | frames (furnishings) | Neoclassical | rosettes | sphinx | staircases | stairs
- Associated Places:
- Headfort House | Ireland | Kells
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12205
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
City Dwellings and Country Houses - Robert Adam and his Style (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 1982-01-19 - 1982-04-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
City dwellings and country houses, Robert Adam and his style. , Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 1982, NJ18 Ad3 C66 (Haas)+ Oversize [ORBIS]
John Harris, Headfort House & Robert Adam : drawings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 1973, pp. 1-2, 11, no. 15, NA7625 .H43 H37 + Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, no. 121, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]