Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawings for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769 and 1776, thought to be as executed (4)

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    - Berkeley Square, number 15 (later number 38), London: designs for interior decoration for Robert Child, 1768-76 (19)

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Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawings for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769 and 1776, thought to be as executed (4)

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The front drawing room would have been located at the front of the first floor of the house.

Harris has suggested that both of these schemes for the ceiling were executed. The first scheme would have been installed in 1769, and then replaced seven years later with the second scheme. The second scheme included medallions painted by Antonio Zucchi. These medallions were detached prior to the demolition of the house, and installed in a reproduction of Adam's ceiling in the dining room at Hinton Ampner, Hampshire, for Ralph Dutton. Unfortunately, the medallions were destroyed by fire in 1960, and have since been replaced at Hinton Ampner by copies.

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Contents of Alternative preliminary designs and finished drawings for a ceiling for the front drawing room, 1769 and 1776, thought to be as executed (4)