[26] Design for the semi-domes to the apses for the saloon (now the library), 1767, as executed

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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)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the hall, music room, saloon, dining room, gallery, library, bed rooms, dressing rooms, great staircase and portico soffit, 1765-1778 (107)
      - Designs for the ceiling for the saloon (now the library), and design for the semi-domes to the apses, 1767, as executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/153

Purpose

[26] Design for the semi-domes to the apses for the saloon (now the library), 1767, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a tripartite semi-dome for an apse, ornamented with fanned compartments of rinceaux, including urns, figures, birds, and acanthus leaves, and with rosettes enclosed by lozenges in the soffit

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of Nich Head in the Saloon at Gawthorpe House

Signed and dated

1767
1767

Medium and dimensions

Pen and wash on laid paper (604 x 359)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, pp. 85, 100
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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