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[77] Record 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 11/162
Purpose
[77] Record drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768
Aspect
Plan as Adam volume 11/161 but with the detail only quarter-drawn
Scale
bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
(72) 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
(73) Cieling for the room on the right hand side of the Saloon at Gawthorpe (in the hand of William Adam)
(75) Cieling for the 1st Drawing room at Harewood House (in the hand of William Adam)
(76) Design of a Cieling for the 1st Drawing Room on the right hand side of the Saloon at Harewood House / Ground round / rose yellow / Ground of H[ _ _ _] / Dark green / Scallops of fans / A Yellow / B Lay [ _ _ _ _ _] / Shields & fig / purple / Purple band / C Dark g / D Light green / yellow / blue ground / Roses / Purple gold / E Lay [ _ _ _ _] / F yellow / G Light green / H yellow / Patterns at / back Enf y / A / C / D / E / F (in feint pencil)
(77) Cieling of the first Drawing room at Harewood House / A Duplicate (all in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1768
1768
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (580 x 430)
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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