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Adam's work to the interior of this room was begun in c1763 for Francis Child, but the only surviving drawing for the walls is a set of laid-out wall elevations within the National Trust drawings collection at Osterley. The room contains landscape paintings by Antonio Zucchi, and an overmantel by Giovanni Battista Cipriani. The grotesque wall panels are similar to those for the dining rooms at Lansdowne House and the music room at Harewood, and according to Stillman, they are among the best preserved and most accessible of all Adam's mature grotesque panels.
There is no surviving drawing for Adam's ceiling in the eating room at Osterley, but it is similar to that executed in the dining room at Shardeloes in 1761.
A pair of pier glass frames was executed for the eating room in accordance with Adam's design, probably by Linnell, and they survive in situ.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).