[8] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1770, as executed

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    - St James's Square, number 33, London: executed designs for the house for the Hon. George Hobart (later 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire), 1770 (12)
      - Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1770, as executed (1)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/38

Purpose

[8] Finished drawing for a ceiling for the dressing room, 1770, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with apsidal ends, with a central oval medallion enclosed within a fluted frame, and festoons, supporting drops running into each corner, composed of calyx, arabesques, anthemia, and cameos enclosed within wreaths, and to each side is a figure holding the festoons, which is supported by a pedestal composed of winged sphinxes, a tablet containing swags, calyx, tubular flowers, and a bracket ornamented with ram masks and festoons, and the apsidal ends are divided by bands of guilloche, and ornamented with rinceaux and anthemia springing from vases

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling of the Dress'g room at The Honble Mr. Hobarts in St. James's Square

Signed and dated

1770
1770

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including terre verte and pink within a single ruled border on laid paper (525 x 356)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 49
Survey of London, 1960, pl. 188a
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

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Drawing

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