[63] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - 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 two alternative finished drawings for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767 (3)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/148

Purpose

[63] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767

Aspect

Plan of a circular, domed ceiling, arranged in a radial pattern around a central mask enclosed by a fan, encircled by segmental patera, a band of Vitruvian scroll, medallions, half putti, and rinceaux, a band of cable moulding, and paired figures standing on pedestals between the semi-domes of eight curved recesses which are ornamented with urns on pedestals, half figures, and rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

[Cielin]g for the Gentleman's Dressing Room in the Principal Apartment of Harewood House proposed to be Painted in the Style of the Ancients (verso) 148

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes on laid paper (570 x 508)

Hand

Adam office hand, probably Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Hussey, 1956, p. 62
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Mauchline, 1992, p. 83
Harris, 2001, p. 152-154
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
In Pursuit of Antiquity: Drawings by the Giants of British Neo-Classicism, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1 February - 1 June 2008; Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung, Berlin, 3 October 2015 - 14 February 2016

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