[1] Alternative design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1765

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - London
    - Great George Street, number 10, London and an unknown site for Henry Drummond, 1765-1781 (13)
      - Alternative designs for a ceiling for the dining room, Great George Street, 1765 (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 11/128

Purpose

[1] Alternative design for a ceiling for the dining room, 1765

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular, tripartite ceiling, with a chimneybreast at one short end. The ceiling is ornamented with a central rosette, enclosed within a fan embellished with anthemia and Vitruvian scroll, and all this is bordered by a band of scrolled hearts. Beyond this there are peltoid shields, festoons and rosettes, which suspend drop calyx and wreaths enclosing anthemia. These alternate with pedestals ornamented with rosettes, flanked by winged sphinxes and surmounted by urns. All this is flanked by narrow strip compartments, ornamented with a band of hexagons enclosing rosettes

Scale

bar scale of 1/2 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Design of a cieling for Henry Drummond Esq.r at his Dining room in Great George Street Westminster. / 128

Signed and dated

1765
1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash on laid paper (421 x 352)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

LVG

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 37
King, 2001, Volume II, p. 94
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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