Explore Collections Explore The Collections
You are here: CollectionsOnline  /  [43] Design for a ceiling for the bow room, 1769, unexecuted

Browse

  • image SM Adam volume 12/23

Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/23

Purpose

[43] Design for a ceiling for the bow room, 1769, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with an apsidal end on one long side. The central compartment is ornamented with a patera enclosed within a band of guilloche, with anthemia and scrolled hearts beyond. This is enclosed within a band of anthemia, and a further band of guilloche, with festoons of husks suspending peltoid shields, rosettes roundels crossed with foliage, and fans beyond. The central compartment is flanked by bands of lozenges enclosing rosettes, and part-paterae set within semi-circular compartments. The semi-circular compartments are ornamented alternatively with rosettes enclosed within coffering, and with festoons of husks and rosettes. The apse is ornamented with a part-patera enclosed by a plain band and a band of arabesques supporting calyx. Beyond this there are rosette roundels and festoons of husks which suspend peltoid shields

Scale

bar scale of 5 1/4 inches to 10 feet

Inscribed

Cieling for the Bow Room over Saloon at Luton not executed / 23-

Signed and dated

  • 1769
    1769

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including pink, verdegris, cerulean blue and olive green on laid paper (628 x 461)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi, William Hamilton or Joseph Bonomi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index, p. 21
King, 2001, Volume I, pp. 18, 122, 122 n.20
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk