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[64] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767
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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)
- Country houses
Reference number
SM Adam volume 11/149
Purpose
[64] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767
Aspect
Plan of circular, domed ceiling, arranged in a radial pattern around a mask enclosed by a fan, encircled by segmental patera, a band of Vitruvian scroll, medallions, griffons, rinceaux, a band of Vitruvian scroll with foliage, festoons, and with a peltoid shield between the semi-domes of eight curved recesses which are ornamented with urns, and rinceaux, as executed
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Stucco Cieling for the Gentleman's Dressing Room in the Principal Apartment of / Harewood House
Signed and dated
- 1767
1767
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes on laid paper (545 x 586)
Hand
Adam office hand, probably Giuseppe Manocchi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Hussey, 1956, p. 62
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Harris, 2001, p. 152-154
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hussey, 1956, p. 62
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Harris, 2001, p. 152-154
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Exhibition history
Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
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