[1] Design for a ceiling for a hall, 1771, possibly executed

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  - Uvedale Price: designs for a hall (possibly for Foxley House), c1771, possibly executed (2)
    - Designs for a hall and a hall ceiling, c1771, possibly executed (2)

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Reference number

SM Adam volume 12/95

Purpose

[1] Design for a ceiling for a hall, 1771, possibly executed

Aspect

Plan of a rectangular ceiling with a central panel ornamented with a rosette set within a circular fan embellished with calyx, and this is enclosed within a band of Vitruvian scroll. Beyond this there are rosette roundels enclosed within festoons. There are corner paterae set within semi-circular bands of fluting and bands of enclosed anthemia. The central panel is set within bands ornamented with urns flanked by rosettes and arabesques, with corner rosette roundels surrounded by calyx, and all this is bordered by bands of guilloche

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Cieling of Hall for Uvedale Price Esq.r (underwritten in pencil) / 95.

Signed and dated

1771
1771

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (465 x 377)

Hand

Possibly
Office hand, possibly Giuseppe Manocchi

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 57
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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