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[52] Finished drawing for an alternative ceiling design for Mrs Lascelles's dressing room, 1766
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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 11/143
Purpose
[52] Finished drawing for an alternative ceiling design for Mrs Lascelles's dressing room, 1766
Aspect
Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of guilloche, with a central square containing a central patera, enclosed by a fan, anthemia, and a circular frame of Vitruvian scroll, and with a peltoid shield in each corner. The central square is flanked by rectangular compartments containing anthemia, calyx and rinceaux
Scale
bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot
Inscribed
Design of a Cieling for the Ladys Dressing Room at Gawthorpe and some dimensions given (in pencil)
Signed and dated
- 1766
Robt Adam Archt / 1766
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (385 x 306)
Hand
Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Robert Nasmith
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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