[55] Design for a ceiling for the state bedcahmber (now Princess Mary's sitting room), 1767, as executed

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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)
      - Design of a Ceiling for the State Bed Chamber at Harewood House (now Princess Mary's sitting room), 1767, as executed (1)

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Reference number

Adam volume 11/147

Purpose

[55] Design for a ceiling for the state bedcahmber (now Princess Mary's sitting room), 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a rectangular recess on one side, divided by a screen of two columns, and with a soffit ornamented with rosettes enclosed by guilloche. The central flat is tripartite, with a central square compartment containing an x-shape arrangement with a central medallion enclosed by a fan, and a band of cable moulding, and with an urn on a pedestal, and rinceaux in each corner. The X-shaped arrangement has a figurative lunette to each side, and there are fans in each corner. The central square compartment is flanked by tripartite end compartments, with a central rectangle containing and urn and rinceaux, flanked by squares containing rosettes encircled by enclosed calyx, and anthemia. The rectangular recess is ornamented with a patera, enclosed by an elliptical band of enclosed calyx, and an elliptical frame of Vitruvian scroll, and laurel leaf tips, and flanked by rinceaux

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Ceiling for the State Bed Chamber at Harewood House

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including terre verte on laid paper (433 x 425)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Harris, 2001, pp. 153, 350
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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