Unfinished preliminary designs and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted (4)

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Town houses
  - London
    - Cumberland House, 86 Pall Mall, London: designs for the interior, and additions to the house for the Duke of Cumberland, August 1780 - January 1788 (69)
      - Designs for the interior decoration, including the great dining room, music room, eating room, drawing rooms and boudoir (59)

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Unfinished preliminary designs and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted (4)

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Adam designed three adjacent drawing rooms for the principal (first) floor of Cumberland House. The first drawing room was to be in the north-east corner of the house, the second in the south-east corner, and the third was in the centre of the south front. None of the drawing rooms were executed.

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Contents of Unfinished preliminary designs and finished drawings for the ceiling and walls of the first drawing room, 1780-85, unexecuted (4)