[87] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1769

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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)
      - Alternative finished drawings for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765-1769 (5)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/167

Purpose

[87] Alternative finished drawing for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1769

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a deep cove, ornamented with enclosed drops of anthemia, medallions in the corners, and alternative schemes for winged sphinxes flanking a medallion, within and without a lunette frame. The central flat is ornamented with a central oval patera, encircled by enclosed palmettes, and within a rectangular frame of enclosed rosettes, and the ground is ornamented with lozenges of calyx, accompanied by flowers composed of enclosed rosettes encircled by anthemia enclosed within scrolled hearts, as executed

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the second Drawing room at Harewood House (in the hand of William Adam) (verso) 169

Signed and dated

1769
1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including olive green within a single ruled border on laid paper (976 x 611)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi, title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Mauchline, 1992, p. 137
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

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