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  • image SM Adam volume 3/106

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

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.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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