Finished drawings for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations (2)

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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)

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Finished drawings for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations (2)

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Harris notes that this ceiling was inspired by a vault in the Palace of Augustus in Rome, and that the carpet echoes the ceiling. Both survive although the arabesques in the corners of the ceiling design were not executed.

There are ten medallions painted by Antonio Zucchi depicting Minerva and the nine muses from Ovid, and with Midas judging the musical contest between Apollo and Pan in the centre.

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Contents of Finished drawings for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations (2)