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Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawing for a ceiling for the drawing room, 1770, Adam volume 11/33 as executed (3)

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The glass drawing room was one of two rooms for which Adam made interior decorative designs at Northumberland House (see scheme notes). The executed scheme for the ceiling (Adam volume 11/33) was inspired by the Udine Peruzzi loggia at the Villa Madama in Rome. A cove was added in 1820 when the south front of the house was found to be structurally unsound and rebuilt by Thomas Cundy (1765-1825), necessitating the widening of the room. The ceiling was destroyed with the demolition of the house in 1874.

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