[33] Design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1772, 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)
      - Preliminary design and design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1772 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/50

Purpose

[33] Design for a ceiling for the ante room, 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, vaulted ceiling ornamented with a central patera set within oval bands of foil and guilloche, and a symmetrical cruciform compartment ornamented with calyx and arabesques supporting anthemia. Beyond this there are reclining figures set within shells and semi-circular bands of calyx, all bordered by a rectangular band of calyx. All this is surrounded by festoons which suspend cameos and drop calyx, and the ceiling corners are ornamented with part-patera, calyx and enclosed anthemia. The ceiling is bordered by husks

Scale

bar scale of ½ inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Anti room at Sir Watkin Wynns in S.t James’s Square / 50. / faint pencil inscriptions

Signed and dated

September 1772
Adelphi / 8.t Sep.r 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including olive green and Venetian red on laid paper (325 x 279)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
King, 2001, Volume I, p. 284
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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