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[68] Design for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9
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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)
- Country houses
Reference number
SM Adam volume 14/121
Purpose
[68] Design for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9
Aspect
Section of a circular, domed room, with curved recesses containing doors flanking an arched window, articulated by paired Ionic pilasters enriched with drops in the shafts, and with figurative overdoors, and a painted ceiling containing figures, half figures, festoons, rinceaux, urns, and medallions
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Dressing room at Harewood
Signed and dated
- 1766-69
date range: 1766-69
Medium and dimensions
Pen, pencil and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (617 x 442)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi
Watermark
XDBC in a cartouche
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Harris, 2001, p. 154
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Harris, 2001, p. 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
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 6 April - 2 September 1995; The Frick Collection, New York, 30 April - 7 July 1996
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk