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  • image SM Adam volume 8/100

Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/100

Purpose

[45] Preliminary design for a ceiling for Lord Bute's dressing room, c1769, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of an apsidal ended ceiling, ornamented with a central roundel, set within a lozenge and a band of husks forming an oval. This is surmounted by swags and flanked by rosettes enclosed within a band of husks

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Butes Dressing Room next Libr[ary] (cropped) (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1769
    c1769

Medium and dimensions

Pencil on laid paper (495 x 538)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
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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