[29] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the library (now the old library), 1765-66

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Harewood House, Yorkshire: designs for alterations to the church and house; for the interior decoration; and for a greenhouse and gateway for Edwin Lascelles, 1759-1782 (121)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the hall, music room, saloon, dining room, gallery, library, bed rooms, dressing rooms, great staircase and portico soffit, 1765-1778 (107)
      - Preliminary design, and alternative designs, and record drawing for the ceiling for the library (now the old library), 1765-66 (4)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/127

Purpose

[29] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the library (now the old library), 1765-66

Aspect

Rough plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, divided by bands of scrolled hearts, and with a deep cove. The central flat has a central square compartment, with a central rosette, enclosed within an x-shaped arrangement containing arabesques, and alternating with panels of a fan, and by a band of rosettes enclosed within linked circles, and with festoons and wreaths in the corners of the central compartment. The outer, rectangular compartments of the central flat are ornamented with rosettes enclosed within an x-shaped arrangement, and parts of a fan, as in the central. The cove is ornamented with Maltese crosses enclosing rosettes, and surrounded with rinceaux

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

1765-66
date range: 1765-66

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (268 x 206)

Hand

Robert Adam

Level

Drawing

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