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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/96

Purpose

[1] Design for a ceiling for the first scheme for the eating parlour (later the ball room), 1771, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, segmental vaulted, compartmental ceiling, divided by bands of guilloche, with borders on the short sides composed of rectangles of scrolled hearts of acanthus, alternating with squares of anthemia and calyx, or enclosed rosettes, and with borders on the long sides composed of rectangles containing alternating anthemia and calyx, and squares containing oval medallions, and the central flat is composed of bands of rectangular compartments containing peltoid shields, urns, calyx, arabesques, segmental fans, and rosettes enclosed within lozenges, and these bands of rectangular compartments alternate with bands of square compartments, and the central square compartment contains a medallion, within a circular frame of enclosed anthemia, with an apron of festoons, arabesques, and anthemia, and the surrounding square compartments alternate between paterae enclosed within circular frames attended with figure-of-eight laurel wreaths with calyx in each corner, and enclosed medallions encircled by arabesques and set within a circular frame supporting a peltoid shield in each corner

Scale

bar scale of 2/5 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the Eating Parlor. for The Right Honorable The Earl of Bective. / N:B: This Cieling is / drawn supposing / the Arch extended / or laid down flat

Signed and dated

  • 1771
    Robert Adam Archt. 1771. / 1771.

Medium and dimensions

(1) Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (629 x 351)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Watermark

JWHATMAN

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
King, 2001, Volume II, pp. 174, 179
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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