[70] Design for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9

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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)
      - Preliminary design and designs for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9 (6)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/120

Purpose

[70] Design for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9

Aspect

Section of a circular, domed room, with curved recesses containing doors flanking an arched window, articulated by paired Ionic pilasters, and with figurative overdoors, and a painted ceiling, containing fans, peltoid shields, festoons, griffons, urns, rinceaux, and medallions

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Dressing room at Harewood

Signed and dated

1766-69
date range: 1766-69

Medium and dimensions

Pen and coloured washes including cerulean blue on laid paper (618 x 441)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 16
Stillman, 1966, p. 100
Harris, 2001, p. 154
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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