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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/108

Purpose

[123] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the drawing room in an unknown house, c1769, as executed

Aspect

Rough plan of a tripartite, rectangular ceiling, divided by bands of figure-of-eight, and with a central square compartment containing a central roundel, enclosed within a circular frame, and encircled by arabesques, and set within a cross-shaped frame, attended by an x-shaped frame, containing vesica-shaped medallions, or drops of anthemia, and tubular flowers in each arm, and between the arms of the x-shape are segmental fans, and the central square compartment is flanked by bordering rectangular compartments

Scale

not to scale

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    datable to 1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (249 x 402)

Hand

Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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