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Finished drawing for a ceiling for the study (now the China Room) 1766, as executed (1)

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Adam's ceiling design for the study, which Harris called 'a miniature Palmyrene room', was inspired by an Upright of the same [the sepulchre] with one of the soffits of the repositories from Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra (1753) pl. xxxvii.

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Contents of Finished drawing for a ceiling for the study (now the China Room) 1766, as executed (1)