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  - Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

Preliminary design for a ceiling, 1761 (1)

It is not known which room this ceiling was designed for, or if it was executed. The elements of ivy and thyrsi suggest that it might have been intended for an eating room.

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Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire: designs for exterior alterations, interior decoration, domestic offices, a gateway, and a banqueting house for William Drake, 1759-63 (43)

[37] Preliminary design for a ceiling, 1761

1761

Adam office hand, possibly Agostino Brunias, with title inscription in the hand of William Adam

SM Adam volume 11/71

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