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Robert Adam, 1728–1792, British, Headfort House, Ireland: Detail of Entablature in the Staircase, between 1771 and 1775
- Title:
Headfort House, Ireland: Detail of Entablature in the Staircase
- Additional Title(s):
Entablature for the Doors in the Bottom Part of the Staircase for Lord Bective
- Date:
- between 1771 and 1775
- Medium:
- Pen and black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper mounted on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/8 x 25 15/16 inches (53.6 x 65.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Entablature for the Doors in the bottom part of Staircase | for Lord Bective | NB: This same Entablature will answer for the Doors in the upper part | of Staircase with the friezes fluted."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.803
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | bucrania | doors | egg and dart moldings | entablature | festoons | Neoclassical | rosettes | staircase
- Associated Places:
- Headfort House | Ireland | Kells | Leinster | Meath
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12210
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Georgian Group, Robert Adam and His Brothers: New Light on Britain's leading Architectural Family, Historic England, Swindon, p. 153, 6.10, NJ18.Ad3 G46 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
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