European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Drawing Room from
Lansdowne HouseMade in England, Europe Designed by Robert Adam,
Scottish, 1728 - 1792. Painted decoration by Giovanni Battista
Cipriani, Italian (active Florence and England), 1727 - 1785,
and Antonio Zucchi, Italian, 1726 - 1795. Gilded by Joseph
Perfetti, Italian, active London from 1760 - 1778.
1931-104-1Gift of Graeme Lorimer and Sarah Moss Lorimer in
memory of George Horace Lorimer, 1931 This drawing room is an
archetypal example of the work of Robert Adam, a Scottish
architect and designer whose name has become synonymous with
this style of neoclassical decoration. The room was originally
situated on the ground floor of the grand London house that Adam
designed for the third Earl of Bute in the early 1760s. Adam's
original plans refer to it as the "Organ Drawing Room," the
large recess being intended for Lord Bute's vastly expensive
mechanical organ. In 1765, Lord Bute sold the unfinished house
to William Petty Fitzmaurice, second Earl of Shelburn