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Reference number

SM Adam volume 31/55

Purpose

[4] Record copy for a ceiling plan for a drawing room, 1790, executed status unknown

Aspect

Ceiling plan comprising three compartments with an apse end along the long side. The central compartment is adorned with an enclosed rosette bound by a radiating fan decorated with palmette, enclosed by an outer ring containing enclosed rosettes with four panels containing arabesque surmounted by winged sphinx on pedestals, with medallions containing figures with festoons in the corners. The outer compartments contain oval medallions bound by octagonal frames within square compartments flanked by arabesques in rectangular compartments. The apse is adorned with a lunette with anthemion and scrolling foliage bound by a moulded border enclosing a band adorned with enclosed rosettes and lozenges containing acanthus leaves

Scale

bar scale of 4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Design of an ornamented Cieling for Sir Alexr Don Baronet proposed to be executed in the Drawing room at Newton Don. / (verso) Sir Alexr Donn 4/3 / (in another hand) This to be placed ninth / 4 / 6

Signed and dated

  • 20/4/1790
    Albemarle Street / 20h April 1790

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and coloured wash including cerulean blue, Naples yellow, sepia and violet on laid paper (606x482)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 24
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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