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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Burghley House, Lincolnshire: designs for the interior of the house, partly executed, and unexecuted designs for a boathouse and gateway for the 9th Earl of Exeter, 1765-79 (16)
    - Designs for the interior decoration of the house, including the library, north hall, great staircase and an organ case (6)

Design for a ceiling for the north hall, 1765, as executed (1)

The ceiling in the north hall was executed by Adam, and remains in situ. This design is a good example of Adam's early ceiling designs, being heavily detailed and divided into numerous compartments.

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Burghley House, Lincolnshire: designs for the interior of the house, partly executed, and unexecuted designs for a boathouse and gateway for the 9th Earl of Exeter, 1765-79 (16)

[2] Design for a ceiling for the north hall, 1765, as executed

1765

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

SM Adam volume 11/124

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