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Reference number

SM Adam volume 14/68

Purpose

[1] Design for a ceiling for the front drawing room, c1779

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling, with a fireplace set in one short side. The ceiling is ornamented with a central roundel surrounded by tubular flowers, and set within a lozenge, oval bands of foil and of calyx. Beyond this there are festoons which suspend wreaths containing rosettes, paterae and drop calyx. The corner wreaths have an apron of panels containing masks and swags, and with drop calyx below

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Design of a Cieling for the front Drawing room at- Stainforth Esq.r / in Bedford Square- / 68 (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1779
    c1779

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil, wash and coloured washes including violet and verdigris on laid paper (444 x 295)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi or Robert Morison

Level

Drawing

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