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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 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)

The 1st drawing room is on the south front of the house, between the saloon and the 2nd drawing room, and the Adam ceiling survives. It was hung with yellow silk in 1776 in preparation for the arrival of Chippendale's furniture upholstered in the same colour.

According to Harris, the executed ceiling, taken from Adam volume 11/161, is based on an antique vaulted ceiling engraved by Pietro Santi Bartoli.

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SM Adam volume 11/158

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)

[72] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton

SM Adam volume 11/158

SM Adam volume 11/159

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)

[73] Finished drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Adam office hand, possibly Robert Nasmith, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 11/159

SM Adam volume 8/158

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)

[74] Alternative preliminary design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

datable to 1768

SM Adam volume 8/158

SM Adam volume 11/160

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)

[75] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

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

SM Adam volume 11/160

SM Adam volume 11/161

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)

[76] Design for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 11/161

SM Adam volume 11/162

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)

[77] Record drawing for the ceiling for the 1st drawing room (now the yellow drawing room), 1765-1768

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

SM Adam volume 11/162

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