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[74] Alternative preliminary 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
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- 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)
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 8/158
Purpose
[74] Alternative preliminary design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768
Aspect
Rough plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central rosettes, encircled by enclosed calyx, within an x-shaped arrangement, and surrounded by rinceaux, and with a border of lozenges enclosed within circles. The central square compartment is flanked by tripartite, rectangular compartments, and the right-hand side shows a central enclosed rosettes, flanked by rectangles containing lozenges
Scale
not to scale
Signed and dated
- 1768
datable to 1768
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (297 x 405)
Hand
Robert Adam
Level
Drawing
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