Explore Collections
You are here:
CollectionsOnline
/
[85] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765
Browse
- 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 11/166
Purpose
[85] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a medallion, enclosed within a fan, and encircled by the central compartment of reed and ribbon guilloche, with rosettes enclosed in the four outer compartments, and which is entwined with vines, and within a border of rinceaux. The central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing oval medallions, enclosed within fans, framed by tazza and rinceaux, and within a border of rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Cieling for the second Drawing room at Gawthorpe House / not executed (all in the hand of William Adam)
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and coloured washes including olive green within a single ruled border on laid paper (633 x 435)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk