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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 drawing for a ceiling for the study (now the China Room) 1766, as executed (1)

Adam's ceiling design for the study, which Harris called 'a miniature Palmyrene room', was inspired by an Upright of the same [the sepulchre] with one of the soffits of the repositories from Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra (1753) pl. xxxvii.

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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)

[36] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the study (now the China Room) 1766, as executed

1766

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith or William Hamilton

SM Adam volume 11/138

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