Drawing

It may be assumed that this design was for the extension of the existing palace built by Carl Harleman between 1734 and 1739. The only dated evidence is a drawing for the elevation by Edward Stevens, dated 1769, in Stockholm (Harris 1970, pl.127). Chambers's designs were not used, and the palace was extended by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz between 1770 and 1773. Chambers's only reward was to be made a Knight in the Order of the Polar Star in 1770. Chambers did, however, exhibit a design for the palace at the Royal Academy in 1775. Early in 1774, Chambers was given the commission to design the park, and sent proposals to the Swedish Envoy in London and, later the same year, directly to Sweden. It seems that little or nothing of those schemes was executed, although a garden in the English taste was made. This was drawn in an office hand and may be related to the one exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1775, although it is too poorly drawn and presented to be the exhibited drawing itself.