[19] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1773, as executed

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    - St James's Square, number 20, London, designs for a house and interiors for Watkin Williams-Wynn, c1772-1777 (99)
      - Design and finished drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1773 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/47

Purpose

[19] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the music room, 1773, as executed

Aspect

Plan of an apsidal-ended rectangular ceiling ornamented with a central figurative roundel set within a band of rosettes and a circular fan embellished with calyx and fluting. Beyond this there are swags which suspend wreaths enclosing rosettes, which are crossed by calyx, and this is enclosed within a band of foil surrounded by anthemia, and a band of double guilloche. Beyond this there are lyres flanked by arabesques and urns, and an oval band of fluting segmented by figurative roundels with aprons of anthemia, festoons of calyx and wreaths. The apsidal ends are ornamented with a part-patera set within a semi-circular band of calyx, flanked by bands of fluting, and this is enclosed within a fan embellished with anthemia, calyx, urns and festoons. All this is set within a semi-circular band of Vitruvian scroll enclosing anthemia, and the ceiling compartments are bordered by guilloche

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Music room at Sir Watkin Wynn’s in S.t James’s Square. / as executed / faint pencil inscription / Light Green (pencil) / L> Green (pencil) / Light Green (pencil) / Light Green (pencil) / b (pencil) 47 /As is coloured [_ _ _] in the [_ _ _ _ _ _] green [_ _] [_ _ _ _] / no Lilac. A.T.B (modern curatorial hand, Arthur Bolton, pencil) and some dimensions given

Signed and dated

May 1773
Adelphi / 23. d May 1773.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including violet, olive green, pink and cerulean blue on laid paper (605 x 435)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 276
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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