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[42] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the ante-room, c1775, as executed
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 3/106
Purpose
[42] Preliminary design for the ceiling for the ante-room, c1775, as executed
Aspect
Plan of a circular ceiling with a central figurative roundel with festoons beyond. All this is enclosed within a band of interlacing circles formed from beading and ornamented with drop calyx and pendent roundels containing rosettes. This is linked with a band of calyx. The overlaps are ornamented with anthemia and tubular flowers, and the ceiling is bordered by a band of fluting
Scale
not to scale
Inscribed
Circular Anteroom at Lady Homes, between the 2d & 3d Drawing Rooms- (underwritten in pencil) / 11. 6 Diamr (pencil)
Signed and dated
- c1775
c1775
Medium and dimensions
Pen and pencil on laid paper (194 x 226)
Hand
Probably
Robert Adam
Robert Adam
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 48
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 51, 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Hussey and Oswald, 1934, p. 26
Whinney, 1969, pp. 51, 66
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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