[76] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

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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)
      - Finished drawings, and alternative preliminary design, designs and record drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/161

Purpose

[76] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a central square compartment containing a central rosette, encircled by enclosed anthemia, and fans, a circular frame of fluting, a circular band of double calyx, and within an x-shaped arrangement, ornamented with festoons, rosettes, vines, drops of calyx, and vesica-shaped medallions, and the x-shaped arrangement is framed by festoons, rosettes, peltoid shields, and rinceaux, and the central square compartment is within a square frame of enclosed rosettes, and a border of rosettes enclosed within lozenges enclosed within wreaths. The central compartment is flanked by tripartite rectangular compartments, with a central enclosed rosette, encircled by enclosed drops of calyx, flanked by rectangles containing lozenges, anthemia, and rinceaux, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 7/10 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the 1st Drawing Room on the right hand side of the Saloon at Harewood House / Ground round / rose yellow / Ground of H[ _ _ _] / Dark green / Scallops of fans / A Yellow / B Lay [ _ _ _ _ _] / Shields & fig / purple / Purple band / C Dark g / D Light green / yellow / blue ground / Roses / Purple gold / E Lay [ _ _ _ _] / F yellow / G Light green / H yellow / Patterns at / back Enf y / A / C / D / E / F (in feint pencil)

Signed and dated

1768
1768

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including pink on laid paper (591 x 451)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 82
Harris, 2001, p. 140
Harris, 2007, p. 87
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Exhibition history

Original Drawings of Robert and James Adam, Kenwood House, London, 1953

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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