[16] Record drawing for a ceiling for the saloon (later the green drawing room), 1772, as executed

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  - Headfort House, County Meath: designs for interior decoration for Thomas Taylor, 1st Earl of Bective, 1771-75 (18)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/101

Purpose

[16] Record drawing for a ceiling for the saloon (later the green drawing room), 1772, as executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, divided by bands of connected enclosed rosettes, with a central square compartment, containing a medallion enclosed within circular frames of fluting Vitruvian scroll, guilloche, laurel leaves, and a band containing urns connected by festoons, and supported by calyx and peltoid shields, alternating with cameos enclosed within lozenges and wreaths, and in each corner is a triangular compartment containing arabesques and rosettes, and the central square compartment is flanked by rectangular compartments containing arabesques and rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 3/4 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Cieling for the Saloon for The Earl of Bective

Signed and dated

19/11/1772
Adelphi / 19t. Novr. 1772.

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink and verdigris on laid paper (588 x 452)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 52
Harris, 1973, note to pl. 31
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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