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[75] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768
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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 11/160
Purpose
[75] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central rosette, encircled by enclosed calyx, within an x-shaped arrangement, ornamented with festoons, vines, rinceaux, and peltoid shields, and with a border of rosettes enclosed within lozenges, enclosed within circles. The central compartment is flanked by tripartite rectangular compartments, with a central enclosed rosette, encircled by enclosed acanthus leaves, flanked by rectangles containing lozenges, rosettes, calyx, and rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the 1st Drawing room at Harewood House (in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1768
1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (477 x 385)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscriptions in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 82
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Mauchline, 1992, p. 82
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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