[32] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, c1770, possibly executed

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Robert and James Adam office drawings
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  - Luton Park, designs for a house and interiors including an organ case for John Crichton Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, c1763-72 (56)
    - Preliminary design and design for a ceiling for the drawing room, c1770, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 8/145

Purpose

[32] Preliminary design for a ceiling for the drawing room, c1770, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling formed with compartments, with a central cameo enclosed within a band of fluting and surrounded by arabesques supporting anthemia. This is enclosed within an alternatively plain band and a bad of calyx. Beyond this there are oval compartments which enclose arabesques supporting urns, flanked by winged griffins, and there are figurative roundels surrounded by rosette roundels. The long sided are ornamented with figurative semi-circular compartments, flanked by further compartments containing urns and swags. The ceiling is alternatively bordered with a band of rosettes enclosed within lozenges, and a band of scrolled hearts

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Lord Butes Drawing Room at Luton (pencil)

Signed and dated

c1769
c1769

Medium and dimensions

Charcoal on laid paper (452 x 410)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Watermark

TH surmounted by a fleur-de-lis

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume I pp. 122, 122 n. 20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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