Design for a ceiling for the lobby between the top hall and the saloon, c1766-72, as executed (1)

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Nostell Priory, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: designs for interior decoration, alterations to the house, and buildings in the park for Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet, 1765-85 (39)
    - Interior decoration: 1765-76

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Design for a ceiling for the lobby between the top hall and the saloon, c1766-72, as executed (1)

Notes

This drawing is a record drawing variant of a design for the same ceiling in an Adam office hand, and datable to 1766-72 within the private collection of Lord St Oswald. There are also three executed working drawings for details of this ceiling, its domes and cornice in an Adam office hand, dated 1 June 1772 within the National Trust drawings collection. The ceiling was executed in accordance with Adam’s design and survives in situ.

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