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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)
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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)
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Contents of 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 drawing for the hall, 1765, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Alternative designs for the ceiling for the hall, 1765 (2)
- Designs for a chimneypiece for the hall, and a vase to stand in the chimneypiece, 1766 and 1778 (2)
- Finished drawing for the music room, c1765-66, executed with minor alterations (1)
- Finished drawings for a ceiling for the music room, 1765, executed with minor alterations (2)
- Alternative designs and a record drawing for a chimneypiece for the music room, 1766-1770 (4)
- Finished drawing for the dining room, 1765-66, as executed (1)
- Design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1765 (1)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the dining room, 1766, as executed (1)
- Finished drawing for the saloon (now the library), c1767 (1)
- Designs for the ceiling for the saloon (now the library), and design for the semi-domes to the apses, 1767, as executed (2)
- Design for the chimneypiece for the saloon (now the library), 1768, as executed (1)
- Finished drawing for the library (now the old library), 1765-68, as executed (1)
- Preliminary design, and alternative designs, and record drawing for the ceiling for the library (now the old library), 1765-66 (4)
- Designs for the chimneypiece and overmantel tablet for the library (now the old library), 1766 (2)
- Finished drawing for the study (now the China room), 1765-68 (1)
- Finished drawing for a ceiling for the study (now the China Room) 1766, as executed (1)
- Design for a chimenypiece for the study (now the China room), 1768 (1)
- Design for a medallion for the study (now the China Room), c1766, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawings for Edwin Lascelles's bed room (now the east bedroom), 1766 (2)
- Design and record drawing for a ceiling for Edwin Lascelles's bedroom, 1766 (2)
- Designs for a chimneypiece for Edwin Lascelles's bed chamber, 1768 (2)
- Finished drawing for Edwin Lascelles' dressing room, 1766, unexecuted (1)
- Design and record drawing for a ceiling for Edwin Lascelles's dressing room, 1766, at least partly as executed (2)
- Design for a chimneypiece for Edwin Lascelles's dressing room, 1768 (1)
- Finished drawing for Mrs Lascelles' dressing room, 1766 (1)
- Finished drawings and record drawings for alternative ceiling designs for Mrs Lascelles's dressing room, 1766 (4)
- Finished drawing for a chimneypiece for Mrs Lascelles's dressing room, 1768 (1)
- Design of a Ceiling for the State Bed Chamber at Harewood House (now Princess Mary's sitting room), 1767, as executed (1)
- Design and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the state bed chamber (now Princess Mary's sitting room), 1767 (2)
- Designs for the ceiling for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767, as executed (2)
- Design and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the state dressing room (now the Spanish library), 1767 (2)
- Preliminary design and two alternative finished drawings for the ceiling for the circular dressing room, 1767 (3)
- Preliminary design and designs for a curved recess, and for the walls of the circular dressing room, 1766-9 (6)
- Design for the soffit of the portico, 1767 (1)
- 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)
- Alternative designs and record drawing for a chimneypiece for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1770-71 (4)
- Finished drawing for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1766-69, executed with alterations (1)
- Alternative finished drawings for the ceiling of the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1765-1769 (5)
- Design for a chimneypiece for the 2nd drawing room (now the cinnamon drawing room), 1771 (1)
- Finished drawing for the great staircase, 1769, as executed (1)
- Design for a ceiling for the great staircase, 1769, unexecuted (1)
- Alternative designs for the soffit to the half landing in the great staircase, 1769 (2)
- Finished drawing for the gallery, 1765-69, 3 walls as executed (1)
- Preliminary design and designs for the ceiling for the gallery, unexecuted, and a preliminary design, finished drawing, and record drawing for the ceiling for the gallery as executed, 1765-69 (6)
- Alternative preliminary designs, and designs for the chimneypiece for the gallery, 1774-1777 (7)
- Preliminary designs and finished drawings for chinoiserie mirror frames, 1769 (4)
- Preliminary design for an unknown ceiling, c1765-78, unexecuted (1)
- Finished drawing for an unknown chimneypiece, 1767 (1)
- Record drawings for friezes, n.d. (3)