[25] Design for the ceiling for the saloon (now the library), 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)
      - Designs for the ceiling for the saloon (now the library), and design for the semi-domes to the apses, 1767, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/152

Purpose

[25] Design for the ceiling for the saloon (now the library), 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a deep cove and a tripartite central flat, divided by bands of fret, and a central circular compartment containing enclosed rosettes, encircled by anthemia, and urns on pedestals connected by festoons, and within a circular frame of cable moulding, and with oval medallions and rinceaux in the corners of the central compartment. In the outer compartments are enclosed rosettes within squares, flanking rectangular panels containing charioteers. The cove is ornamented with urns on pedestals connected by festoons, enclosed rosettes, enclosed anthemia, and peltoid shields

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Saloon at Gawthorpe House. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (621 x 447)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, pp. 85, 100
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Paper Palaces: the Topham Collection as a source for British Neo-Classicism, The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 May - 1 November 2013

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