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Robert and James Adam office drawings
- Country houses
  - Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)

Record drawing for a ceiling for the saloon (later the green drawing room), 1772, as executed (1)

The saloon is located at the centre of the garden (south) front of the house, between the eating parlour and the drawing room. Adam's ceiling as executed in accordance with the drawing, and survives in situ.

Within the drawings collection of the Yale Center for British Art at New Haven there is a quarter drawn copy of Adam volume 12/101, dated 1772.

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Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)

[16] Record drawing for a ceiling for the saloon (later the green drawing room), 1772, as executed

Adelphi / 19t. Novr. 1772.

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

SM Adam volume 12/101

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