[98] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1769

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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 designs for the ceiling for the gallery, unexecuted, and a preliminary design, finished drawing, and record drawing for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1765-69 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/170

Purpose

[98] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, compartmental ceiling, with five octagons containing cameos enclosed within fans and rinceaux, set within x-shaped arrangements containing rinceaux, and drops of calyx, and the x-shaped compartments alternate with vesica-shaped medallions, enclosed by an elliptical frame of enclosed rosettes, and with a border of rectangular figurative panels, with an apron of festoons and bows, and surmounted by urns flanked by winged griffons, alternating with crosses, containing guilloche enclosing rosettes, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Gallery at Harewood House (in the hand of William Adam)

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (1186 x 438)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 103
Mauchline, 1992, p. 77
Harris, 2001, p. 146
Harris, 2007, p. 87
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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