[8] Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1773, unexecuted

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/44

Purpose

[8] Design for a ceiling for the hall, 1773, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central patera, and this is surrounded by geometric compartments containing rosettes and calyx, and all this is set within an oval band of guilloche. Beyond this there are festoons of husks, and wreaths supporting eagles, all set within an oval band of laurel leaf tips. The ceiling has corner rosettes, and is bordered with a band of reed and ribbon

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Hall. / at Sir Watkin Wynn’s in / S.t James’s Square (underwritten in pencil) / Cornice / 44. and some dimensions given (pencil)

Signed and dated

September 1773
Adelphi Sep.t 16.t 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (446 x 328)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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