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[83] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765
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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 11/163
Purpose
[83] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a central oval patera, enclosed by an oval frame of Vitruvian scroll, accompanied by thyrsi, and within an oval frame of cable moulding, encircled by anthemia, and the whole within the central compartment of reed and ribbon guilloche, with rosettes enclosed in the four outer compartments, and which is entwined with vines
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Room in the South West Corridore at Gawthorpe House in Yorkshire. The Seat of Edwin Lascelles Esquire and some dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 1765
1765
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (631 x 406)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton
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
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