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[72] Finished drawing 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 11/158
Purpose
[72] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of Vitruvian scroll, and with a border of festoons, bows and rosettes. The central flat has a central square compartment, with a central rosette encircled by a fan, festoons, and a radial pattern of rosettes enclosed by wreathes, within a circular fluted frame, and with rinceaux in the corners. The central square compartment is flanked by tripartite rectangular compartments, with a central enclosed rosette, flanked by rectangles containing rosettes enclosed within lozenges
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Room on the right hand side of the Saloon at Gawthorpe. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esqr. and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (573 x 475)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
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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